The Donald Trump drama aftermath involves so much dynamic stretching that American politics has become a form of Pilates, which requires strength, balance and flexibility
There he was, only a few weeks ago, his White House prospects high, his profile robust, his potential nearly unlimited. He was teasing the political world – a potential Republican nominee with the Donald Trump muscle without the Trump madness. He wrote a memoir – thepreliminary step in a presidential drive since Jimmy Carter’s 1976 campaign – and was using his book-promotion tour as a pretext to travel to the early political testing grounds of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the very model of the Republican establishment and the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, disapproves of Mr. Trump as much as he disapproves of extramarital sex. But even he was moved to say that the bill of particulars against his nemesis was a “stretch.” Three exceptions may be Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire and two former Republican governors whose own acrobatic twists on Mr. Trump set the political challenge in high relief.
“They were running against an incumbent president,” said Michael Kazin, a Georgetown University historian who was a leading anti-war figure at the time and was arrested in protests at the chaotic Democratic National Convention in Chicago. “The Democratic bosses still supported Johnson, and in this case Trump still has support of a big chunk of Republicans. To defeat Trump, his challengers have to peel away some of his supporters.
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