Since Woodward’s expose Rage and The Atlantic report that Trump called our fallen and injured soldiers suckers and losers, there’s a new strategy in play among the more literate of Trump’s supporters. I call this strategy revisionist apologetics. Here’s the latest example courtesy of a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute.
The new strategy has two elements. First, acknowledge Trump’s deficiencies but cast them as character flaws/personality defects. Trump’s racism, fascism, greed, amorality, etc. are troubling but not disqualifying flaws. For example, serial lying is recast as a propensity for exaggeration or hyperbole.
Having tried many different ways to attack Biden, the Trump machine has apparently decided on Biden as Bolshevik.