When former President Trump’s campaign plane suffered mechanical problems en route to his Montana rally this weekend, it might as well have been a political metaphor come to life.

On Saturday, The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan described Donald Trump’s recent run of bad polling and rough outings as “the worst three weeks” of his campaign. That’s putting it lightly. After a year and a half commanding the headlines and coasting toward a general election victory, Trump’s campaign now seems to be falling apart in every way imaginable. Judging by his private fury, Trump is well aware that his moment is slipping away.

Trump’s slide in the polls can be attributed to a few factors, from his terrible vice presidential pick to President Biden’s unexpected departure from the race in late June. There’s also a simpler factor at play: voters have seen Trump’s politics of rage and division before. Given a fresh choice, most Americans are eager for something — anything — new.

A new crop of national and state-level polls bear out the reality that voters are simply ready to move on from the Trump show, which they’ve now been watching for the better part of a decade. A New York Times-Siena poll........

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