On Sunday, Peggy Noonan was on the panel on Meet the Press, and because she was on a show that featured Trump Attorney Joe Tacopina, who gave renewed life to every hackneyed, unscrupulous, tone-deaf, and unconscionably soulless lawyer joke ever told, she was a pleasure. On the other hand, when you share a Green Room with an apologist for a bile-filled, bigoted insurrectionist who’s spitting out Nazi tropes, the bar is pretty low.
All that to say, I want to share just some of the wisdom she shared with our man Chuck Todd, stipulating that she may have said only part of this — if any of it at all.
Host Chuck Todd: What say you, Peggy, about our former president?
Peggy Noonan: I wonder lately, wondering and searching and, ah, I think, yeah, wondering explains it best, if people have become a little desensitized to Donald Trump, which is to say not as sensitive to him as they once were before in the past. People are so used to him now, he’s a known person, a known thing — like a rash you can’t reach but have come to live with.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Friedman of the Plains to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.