I could be wrong, but somehow the Lysol moment feels like it could be a psychological turning point — the moment when even a lot of Trump diehards face up to his essential unfitness 1/
Those who went through the Bush years may remember how scandal after scandal, policy failure after policy failure, didn& #39;t seem to stick. The debacle in Iraq dented Bush& #39;s popularity, but not nearly as much as it should have 2/
But Katrina somehow was the defining moment. Some of us had long understood Bush& #39;s inadequacy, but "Heckuva job, Brownie" as scenes of devastation played on TV broke through the denial 3/
And I have the feeling — which is all that it is — that suggesting that people inject themselves with disinfectant may in its own way be the comparable moment, when even the true believers run out of excuses 4/
Of course I could be wrong. But right now my sense is that, to turn the pundit cliche on its head, yesterday was the day Trump stopped being president 5/
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