Democratic Primaries

What really clarified it for me was a moment in 2016 when he got off that campaign plane in the middle of the night and a small enthusiastic crowd of mostly young people met him on the tarmac. He said “I feel like a rock star.”

So a bent-over little old man whose next age milestone will be 80, who’s spent a lifetime kvetching and scolding and complaining from the sidelines gets a drive-by of the Fountain of Youth. And sudden tons of attention and mass-adulation. For the first time in his life. The spotlight! More like a whole big bunch of ‘em! And all the cameras and microphones - FINALLY “coming to their senses” and seeking HIM out, at long last! And it goes straight to his head.

I think it’s his artificially-inflated ego we’re seeing and hearing, that’s making all the noise. It’s a drug. And he got addicted to it back in 2015 and 16. And he’s back for another fix this year. And if he lives, he’ll probably want more in 2024 which will lead him to try to primary the Dem in the White House (presumably Biden) or yet another run if we’re unfortunate enough to have trump cheat his way back in.