"Nothing Matters"

 I've come to notice that commentators - left or right - have settled on a narrative of "nothing matters" when to comes to Donald Trump. There are so many iterations of this, but a few would be 

- Joe Biden's age is the central feature of the presidential race, but Donald Trump's is not.
- Trump has launched a coup against electoral democracy, but everyone knows that so it's not a story.
- Trump's judges have overturned Roe, but everyone knows that so it's not a story.
- Trump is a convicted felon, but everyone knows that so it's not a story.
- Trump has ducked debating Harris again, but that doesn't matter.
- Trump has ducked hard interviews like 60 Minutes, but no one cares about that, unless it's Harris not going on Joe Rogan's podcast.
- Trump, yesterday, struggled to get into a truck and has not released medical records, but his supporters don't care.
- Trump held a veritable Nazi rally on Sunday, but Joe Biden called those Nazis garbage, so bothsides.
- The people around him are nuts and want to bring back polio and the measles.

In short, media commentators - with a few exceptions - have all decided that whatever Trump does or doesn't do simply isn't relevant, because he's done atrocious disqualifying shit before and won in 2016. so it doesn't matter now.

I have to wonder if that's true.

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, he was soundly beaten in 2020, he has since launched a coup, seen Roe overturned, been convicted and then run an objectively terrible campaign all fall.

And the race is tied?

Look, maybe it is. Trump has defied the laws of political gravity before. He should not be the nominee of a major party, but he is. 

Perhaps I'm hopelessly naïve and Pollyannaish, but I can't help but have some faith in the American people. I know that for many people the very fact that Trump wasn't thrashed in 2016 has shaken their faith, but I think that people are tired of him. 

I think this shit actually does matter.