JOHN PODHORETZ: Trump the ‘colossus’ is the comeback king of American politics.
Think of it. This is a man who was impeached (for a second time) two weeks before leaving office in 2021. In the years that followed that second impeachment, he was pursued by a state attorney general, two local prosecutors and a federal special prosecutor.
He was indicted 91 times in three different criminal courts and found liable in two civil courts. He has been convicted (ludicrously, in my view) of 34 (ludicrous, again) felonies.
He has had his home raided by federal agents. He has seen his eponymous business effectively shut down by a Manhattan judge.
He has been the subject of relentless and limitless hostile press coverage that dwarfs any negative characterizations of any other human being of our time.
And yet here he is, on the cusp of becoming president of the United States for a second go-round.
His utter refusal to be bent or broken by his enemies and his critics and his determination to redeem himself by recapturing the office he lost has no parallel that I can think of — not in American history, anyway.
And he did it fair and square. He declared again in a Republican primary contest, bested his rivals, secured his party’s nomination and then just went about doing whatever the thing is that he does.
He let the GOP choose and on Election Day he let the American people choose.
Exit quote:
This is the most staggering political comeback in American history. Period. Nixon held the comeback trophy for nearly 60 years. No longer.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 6, 2024