Donald Trump’s 2015 announcement speech is now remembered for his descent down the Trump Tower escalator, the hired claque of supporters and the wild accusation that Mexico was exporting rapists across the border. Maybe instead of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 “It’s morning in America”, Trump might have claimed: “It’s morning in my America”. But Trump, judging from his Orlando kick-off rally, lacks the flexibility and the self-awareness to ever change. Like the half-century-old Rolling Stone songs played at his rallies, Trump is locked into the politics of nostalgia. Four years after the Trump Tower speech, it is hard for a sitting president to again conjure up the dread specter of “Crooked Hillary” and hapless Obama.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 09:56 UTC