Trump's amnesia advantage gets at what you were just talking about.

Susan writes in part, the American presidency is the ultimate easy target,

whether high gas prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine or post-pandemic inflation at the grocery store.

Biden absorbed the outrage while the mitigating steps taken by his administration have not

redounded to his credit.

Susan continues, the incumbency bind is a real problem for Biden in 2024.

So too is the political amnesia powering the increasingly absurd arguments from Trump and his

enablers about how he better handle everything

from Israel and Ukraine to the border.

Forgetting Trump's own memory lapses and those of the broader electorate is one of the

former president's political

superpowers.

You could add to that list, and I know you write about this too,

Susan, January 6, the rewriting of history around that,

what he did around the 20-20 election.

Donald Trump still sort of like he did in 2016

wants to be the white night riding in

to save a country in decline, forgetting the fact

that he was right there in the middle of it for four years

adding to it. Yeah I'm pretty blown away when you look at some of these numbers

it is just extraordinary it's as if the country a large part of the country has lost its collective mind really.

I mean, you see Donald Trump going up in polls on every sort of criteria.

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