As a Republican, when you’ve lost the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, you’ve lost a pillar of your base support. Yet the rabidly conservative, over-the-top reactionary and reflexively pro-Trump WSJ Editorial page has apparently had enough of Trump’s nonsensical campaign rallies masquerading as “daily press briefings,” and the sycophantic swill that comes with them.
Titled “Trump’s Wasted Briefings,” the paper’s lead editorial states, in somewhat more genteel terms, what the majority of Americans have already known for some time: Donald Trump’s captive clown show does next to nothing in terms of informing Americans, mostly because the buffoon who leads them can’t stop trying to make himself the story, with little if any regard for the actual concerns of the American people.
There are the usual, no doubt mandatory allusions in the editorial to the conspiracy-addled fever dreams that perpetuate the right, but there is also a fair degree of disgust, probably reflecting the fact that Trump’s tactics seem to be falling flat from a polling standpoint.