Sometimes Just Seeing The Tweets Next To Each Other...

Strongmen who got cozy with Trump get the cold shoulder from Biden - here’s mine this morning on who’s up and who’s down with the Oval Office under new management. https://t.co/TL7cWsHbSU

— Anne Rumsey Gearan (@agearan) May 5, 2021

...is enligthening.

If Elise Stefanik gets the No. 3 job, House Republicans will have a millennial woman in leadership while the Democrats’ top three leaders are all in their 80s.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 5, 2021

Mitch McConnell. Chuck Grassley. Donald Trump.  At 56, Kevin McCarthy is a stripling.  Everybody also ignores him.

The bottom line is Trump and his inner circle were hanging on this decision and view Facebook reinstatement as crucial to Trump’s political comeback. Mostly because of its fundraising power. They submitted a lengthy written argument... 1/2 https://t.co/P8HAqQVdnZ

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 5, 2021

Alright, I have to comment here. Trump's "political comeback" is a joke.  I read a Politico article recently (which I couldn't find again this morning, damn the luck) about what Trump is doing now.  Basically, he's not leaving the confines of Mar-A-Lago.  He's not doing rallies, he's not going out to pitch for GOP candidates; nothing.  (Ignore that "support" he gave the widow of Rep. Wright in north Texas at the last minute.  Special elections always appeal to, basically, primary voters; and voters love to elect grieving widows to replace dead husbands.  Trump had zero effect, since Wright is in a run-off, as could have easily been predicted.)

The article pointed out Trump was "lost" without Twitter to rant on.  Now he doesn't have Facebook, and he doesn't even reach for his new blog to complain about that, he goes to e-mail, secure in the knowledge the journalists he reaches will repeat his nonsense on Twitter (and probably Facebook) for him.

Trump is 75 years old.  In 2024, he'll be 78.  And he's already acting like an old man.  (Why do you think Biden made sure cameras saw him riding a bike?)  He's locked himself away in Florida, and if he leaves it will only be because the place is closed and he'll have no one to rant at then.  His declarations he will run again in 2024 are grifting motions, nothing more.  He won in 2016 by a fluke, more because he ran against Hillary Clinton than anything else.  He's not a political genius, he's proof our system is much more vulnerable to abuse than ever we wanted to acknowledge.  He couldn't make a comeback if he wanted to.  And it's pretty clear he doesn't want to.  He wanted Facebook for the grift; not for political strategic reasons.

Behold Grandpa Trump:

What a funny existence; to live 24/7 like you’re at your cousin’s wedding https://t.co/qo2kI7Chnq

— Dennis Herring (@dcherring) May 5, 2021

"He's in great spirits!" is the type of thing people say after visiting an elderly relative.

— Scott Lowe (@ScottLowe) May 5, 2021

Trump won 74 million votes in 2020 because he was the incumbent. The last incumbent to lose re-election was Poppy Bush, who was never really much better as a politician than Hillary.  In fact, if memory serves, every incumbent President who lost re-election in the 20th century was a Republican.

Trump is not Nixon.  Trump is not even Bill Clinton (You have to be this old to remember “The Comeback Kid”). He ain't comin' back.