The Band Plays On

Asked if he's seen the distressed letter from the widower of Lori Klausutis about Trump turning her death into fodder, Trump says "yeah I have," then continues propagating his conspiracy nonsense, then says, "As you know, there's no statute of limitations."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 26, 2020

I'm going to pull this into what I just said about Dan Crenshaw and people being "too afraid" of the coronavirus (to his credit, the local NPR host, who didn't want to appear partisan, treated Crenshaw as if he were the crazy guy at the end of the bar):

The problem for [Bill] Stepien, though, is that no amount of messaging or get-out-the-vote efforts can shade the reality that Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic has plunged the country into a once-in-a-century economic crisis. It’s a point Stepien tacitly made when I interviewed him before the 2018 midterms. “Bottom line is Americans want security. They want to feel safe in the realm of national security, and they want to feel economically secure,” Stepien said at the time.

Bill Stepien as of today has been promoted to deputy campaign manager of the Trump campaign.  But he's right about security, and that's why Crenshaw thinks we all need to grow up and stop being such whiny babies.  Crenshaw is very tight with Trump; I don't doubt for a minute that his think reflects that of the inner circle of the White House.  Trump can't provide that security, so he's going to blame the American public for not providing it for themselves.

This is what I came to this article for:

But the biggest obstacle standing in the way of a Trump-campaign reset is the candidate. “Trump is doing it to himself by tweeting idiotic conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough. Women are tired of this shit,” said another former West Wing official. An outside adviser agreed. “Trump can’t pivot to a different strategy,” the adviser told me. “He only knows one strategy—which is attack. It worked in 2016. But now it’s not what people are looking for.” The adviser told me that Trump’s New York friends are planning an intervention to get him to stop tweeting about the Morning Joe cohost.

As Daniel Dale's tweet shows, Trump's not just tweeting idiotic conspiracy theories now.  Progress!

I don't give those New York friends more than a 20% chance of a successful intervention.  And it's not just women who are tired of this shit.