I stand corrected!
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I got back from dinner, and I feel the opposite that I did waking up in France and seeing the debate postmortems:
Really has ‘grandpa after 5 drinks at a family wedding addressing everyone bc he doesn’t know if he’s gonna make another one of these’ vibe— kang (@jaycaspiankang) July 19, 2024
David Axelrod all but rubs Scott Jenning's face in his prediction that Trump would "blow the doors off" tonight.
"This is the first good thing and that‘s happened to Democrats in the last three weeks. This really reminded everyone why Donald Trump is fundamentally unpopular." https://t.co/X3q4FDdrwz pic.twitter.com/4pm2ThQsbk— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 19, 2024
The experience of seeing the Phantom Menace on opening night—wanting to like it, eager to tell doubters they were wrong, gradually realizing that’s not what you’re watching—except there’s no Darth Maul fight at the end, so you’re left with saying Wild Wild West was bad too. pic.twitter.com/Hupm3ZZIhK— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) July 19, 2024
Tonight’s speech is going to harden Democrats’ spines. The best argument against the party replacing Biden was fatalism: if you’ll lose anyway, may as well lose conventionally.
But no Democrat watching that speech thought Trump unbeatable. It was an antidote to fatalism.— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 19, 2024
One of the longest speeches we’ve seen from the standpoint of length— David Weigel (@daveweigel) July 19, 2024
I guess now I know what that reporter meant when she said Trump had gotten more spiritual — he was going to give a speech more boring and at much greater length than a replacement-level sermon.