Susan Glasser

They have an enthusiasm problem.

They have a Republican problem, actually, as much as they have a Democrat problem.

And the Republican problem is that they

are scared.

They are unhappy.

And if you look at the polls, like CNN's latest, which has 63% disapproval of the president, that's a bunch of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in particular who are embedded in what's now close to two-thirds of the country disapproving of the president.

And so I think it's that kind of scare the crap out of you about the Democrats

part of the speech that that's really the motivation for things like that stupid stunt.

You know, can we rile them up?

Can we sort of go back to our playbook of anti-Trumpism, basically?

Yeah, Donald Trump is not a persuader.

I think we've learned that.

He just doesn't care about you enough to try to convince you of something.

I'm glad you picked up on this important development, which I admit that I did leave out of my New Yorker column.

But, you know, it's an important assignment.

I'm sure on a night when the loudest applause of the evening went to Marco Rubio, J.D.

Vance was grateful to have this crumb thrown at him by the president.

You know, look, it underscores something that

is an important fact about the Trump administration, which is the world's largest, most powerful irony-free zone.

Donald Trump literally found guilty of fraud in New York State and actually had to literally close down his Trump charity in New York State because it was found to be a fraudulent entity that was misrepresenting itself.