BOB EHRLICH: The Biggest Lesson To Take Away From Trump’s Inauguration
The ability to overcome obstacles is a well-recognized element of success, regardless of profession. Everyone knows it. But not everyone has the wherewithal to get it done — to be undeterred by the curve balls life has…
The ability to overcome obstacles is a well-recognized element of success, regardless of profession. Everyone knows it. But not everyone has the wherewithal to get it done — to be undeterred by the curve balls life has thrown your way.
I keep thinking about this life lesson as a new Trump term dawns — a highly unlikely event from the perspective of a few short years ago.
Talk about obstacles. The end of Trump I and the arrival of President Joe Biden was as bad as it could get for a departing president. It was a time of recounts and recriminations, of cabinet resignations and negative press coverage and even a post-election impeachment. And, of course, the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, a shockingly bad final chapter to Trump 45.
The resulting bad press and historically low approval numbers had even die-hard MAGA types doubting the plausibility of a Trump comeback four years later.
And then, additional obstacles popped up. The FBI famously raided Mar-a-Lago (including gratuitously Melania Trump’s private wardrobe area), the precursor to a federal indictment over the alleged (mis)treatment of classified documents.
A Jack Smith-led second federal indictment followed, this time pertaining to the so-called “Insurrection” of January 6. And then there were the two additional (state) indictments by avowed anti-Trump local prosecutors. No politician could survive the combined weight of all that legal trouble — right?
But lawfare’s enforcers had even more arrows to fire. This time, it was blue state attorneys general and secretaries of state seeking