"We're (still) done for!"

Not only did 2 million fewer people watch @realdonaldtrump’s convention speech, his Conclave of Doom didn’t work.

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— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 30, 2020

And the news only gets worse:

Just a reminder, it’s not like there’s a plague sweeping the country, a race war being engineered out of the White House, and an economy on the brink...but Trump is playing golf today.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 30, 2020

I mean, just put that image up against this:

Weeping hurricane victim goes on Fox News to personally beg Trump: ‘The food is gone in 30 minutes’https://t.co/ArSdMWowiL

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 30, 2020

And of course the image of police in D.C. "clearing" Lafayette Square so Trump could hold up a Bible, that never gets old.

This is an important message in a dark time: https://t.co/B2dhizG8OY

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 30, 2020

Lay that alongside his demand the mayor of Portland let federal officials back into the city.  Still trying to figure out why Trump didn't "fix" that the first time he was there.  An NYT reporter on Chuck Todd's show pointed out violence in Portland declined after federal troops stopped yanking people off the streets and tear-gassing Moms in t-shirts.  Pretty damned clear where the violence is coming from, aside from people determined to burn buildings (which I consider a separate kind of violence from police violence).

Besides, and honestly:  the violence being discussed so hotly by reporters (because Trump's campaign is discussing it) is in a bubble.  People in Iowa and Wisconsin don't give a shit about protests in Portland.  People in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Orange, Texas, don't give a wet snap about police dereliction in Kenosha.  Most of the country is concerned with their own economic problems and the issues surrounding schools and contagion, issues Trump has done nothing about.  Trump has done nothing for Iowa, and so far less than nothing for Louisiana.  He visited the area yesterday, he's playing golf today.  And he's comforting himself with tweets from PollWatch2020, the "unskew the polls" people of 2020, apparently:

If you want to see how good or bad a pollster is just go to Real Clear Politics and check their past predictions. Don't go to 538. Their ratings are purely political and usually upside down from reality.

— PollWatch (@PollWatch2020) August 28, 2020

It's like the whole world is a hall of fun-house mirrors.