This is what was happening in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday night. Donald Trump was speaking at a rally he said was the biggest ever held there in Manchester, because every one of his rallies is the biggest ever held in whatever venue, wherever he is. He was speaking to Republicans in New Hampshire about the same things he spoke to Republicans about in Iowa just days before, describing to them a new place in a new country where they had never been. They didn’t know where they were going yet, but if they listened closely to him, he would take them there.
“We need to come together and focus all of our energy and resources on defeating crooked Joe Biden,” Trump said at the rally. Adopting the language Biden has used effectively against him, Trump said of the president, “He is a threat to democracy. He really is. We have to get him out. You know why he is a threat to democracy? A couple of reasons. He’s grossly incompetent. We will end up in a world war because of this guy. The bomb thrower. Look at the Middle East now again. Here we go again. The bombs are being dropped all over the place. The Secretary of missing in action. And then they find him. You know how he’s running the war? Laptop from his stomach waiting in a hospital bed.”
Referring to a war started in the year 2001 by another Republican president, Trump conflated Biden with every president who had served in office since that war began, including himself: “Same people that gave us Afghanistan, I think the most embarrassing event in the history of our country, those are the people running his wars. Nobody ever gets fired. I fired Comey. I fired a lot of people. When somebody’s bad, you have to fire them. Here’s a guy they don’t win wars, they don’t do anything right, and nobody ever gets fired. I guess they know too much. Does anyone know what that........