>>Has there ever been a better time for a great leader to appear?

Never, and history will confirm him in that light.



;-) Sorry, couldn't resist.

In fairness, this week even New York Times has sheepishly weighed in on the Russia hoax, astonishingly declaring that Obama (personally) knew how to play dirty. You have to assume something leaked and they know what's coming.

Meanwhile Trump is little different from a sort of businessman many of us will have encountered over the years. Unashamedly crass, expansive, everything is the best (or worst- there's no middle ground) and you have to look past the flamboyance to understand why such a person has more extravagant wins than failures. He's not perfect and often you can just see the train wreck approaching, e.g. in press conferences when he delivers gifts to hostile press, but perfect is the enemy of good and sometimes months later the foot he appeared to stick in his mouth, turns out to be made of gold. Open vs closed borders in the Age of Covid would be a prime example where if not for the partisan press, celebrities and politicians would have whole buffets of crow they need to eat.

Whether Victor's "stupid voters" can believe that HRC arrives relatively unstained with clean hands when the time comes, is yet to be seen.