Hopefully Peggy Noonan Is Absolutely Right...,
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan lit into former President Donald Trump this week and argued that his 37-count federal indictment will cost him some support in the GOP. Noonan, a longtime commentator and former speech writer for President Ronald Reagan , began her column by looking back at what she has written about Trump since he joined national politics in 2015. Noonan quotes herself, noting, “Donald Trump is an unstable element inserted into an unsettled environment. Sooner or later there will be a boom.” She added that Trump “has poor impulse control and is never above the fray. He likes to start fights. That’s a weakness. Eventually he’ll lose one.” “I have been startled at how much I said then that I’d say now,” Noonan concludes with her brief look back, noting that she was wrong, however, to conclude he wouldn’t last on the national stage. Noonan then transitions into her analysis of the indictment. “The charges a...