Trump’s Evolution as a Politician Is Driving the Left Mad

 A firehose. That has been the news cycle in the last three weeks.

For the sake of a recap, President Biden had arguably the worst presidential debate performance of modern politics on June 27. The media and elite Democrats jumped on the bandwagon to oust him despite the President’s insistence that he was staying in the race. Interestingly, as the Left spiraled, President Donald Trump remained mostly quiet. Then just before July 4, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of former President Trump, saying he has absolute immunity for official acts. The Left shifted into overdrive to force Biden to step off the Democrat ticket.

They failed.

Then, Biden introduced Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy as “President Putin” in front of the entire world at a NATO summit. And again, Trump remained mostly quiet. Then just days before the RNC in Milwaukee, a shooter’s bullet came within an inch of assassinating former President Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, effectively turning him into a near-martyr. Two days later, a federal judge in Florida tossed out Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump, who, hours later, picked Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his Vice President to invigorate his base and unite the country.

WHEW! Through it all, it is hard to find any aspect of the last three weeks that doesn’t translate well, politically, for Trump. Whenever Trump dominated the news cycle, it was largely positive, and whenever Biden was featured, the coverage was largely negative. Now, the Left is struggling to unify on any level with less than four months until Election Day.

Worse for them, the Left appears to be out of answers politically. Nothing seems to be working. One scarcely reported reason regarding Trump’s widening poll advantage is his apparent newfound ability to remain quiet and allow the Left to self-destruct.

In 2016, such a proposition was unthinkable. Voters latched on to Trump’s bombastic, erratic, bull-in-a-china-shop style. They wanted an outsider and got one. However, eight years into his political career, Trump seems to be more refined, calculated, and at the very least, listening to his advisers about when to speak up and when to quietly let the Left spiral out of control. Some media outlets have noticed, going so far as to call him a “professional politician” and practically begging him to disrupt the news cycle so they can talk about something – anything – other than Joe Biden’s mental acuity.

But Trump abstained. Before the debate, Trump was under court-ordered silence about certain parts of his New York campaign finance trial, particularly any disparaging comments about the court or prosecutors. But the gag order made no difference, and Trump was notably civil on the debate stage – even during Biden’s worst moments. In fact, as Biden’s own Democrat coalition started to crumble, Trump refused to publicly take cheap shots. A quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte seems to be the strategy at play: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

In years past, Trump’s proclivity to pour gasoline on every mistake by the Left typically provided an opportunity for the media to flip the narrative and make the story about how unhinged he appeared to be. But that’s not 2024 Trump. He seems to understand the political moment, that appearing as the voice of reason to undecided voters is working, and that he can maintain his firebrand while positioning himself as exactly what America’s doctor ordered. And while the Left holds their collective breath every time Joe Biden appears to verbally stumble, Trump needs only to strike the right tone at the RNC, after weeks of moderate silence, to unite the country behind him.

So far, the sound of Trump’s silence has been deafening for the Left. But now he’s about to break it.