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The wells of the great deep opened yesterday, as a flash flood of liberal tears threatened to submerge Portland. This morning, the New York Times frontpaged this unbelievable, only-in-2025, Trump-deranged headline: “President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.” It was the sum of all fears made manifest: proof of presidential life.

At his widely-watched announcement yesterday, a reporter even pitched the impertinent but highly amusing inquiry, “Mr. President, when did you first learn you were dead?”

Not since the Great Ramp Incident of January 2020 has Trump’s health so consumed the left. They were sure they had him, this time. This time, it was even worse than his slow stroll down a long ramp in the light rain. But alas, their dreams were dashed. Following “three days of silence” —i.e., only 90 posts on Truth Social— Trump popped up more alertly than Punxatawney Phil at a groundhog convention. Surprise, bitches!

... More Democrats watched Trump’s announcement about moving Space Force to Huntsville yesterday than had watched the Inauguration. What can you say about President Trump’s marketing genius? He literally did nothing and captured the entire news cycle. He’s a once-in-a-lifetime talent. We’ll never have another one.

only-in-2025, Trump-deranged headline: “President Trump Is Alive. The Internet Was Convinced Otherwise.” It was the sum of all fears made manifest

This dynamic has led to what I call “the paradox of Trumpian overreach”: that the more Trump overreaches, the more Democrats, ensconced in their partisan bubbles, are pressured into the most histrionic, radical, ineffective responses to Trump, thereby enabling Trump to overreach some more and crippling the effectiveness of his opposition. In other words, the very scale of his overreach, which should make it easier to defeat him, actually makes it harder.