Donald Trump’s allies praised him for his discipline during his announcement speech when he mostly stuck to the script as written by his staff.
Then, within about a week, he was embroiled in an antisemitism controversy.
Could anyone be surprised?
Trump’s brief bouts of care about what he says and does, usually involving reading from a teleprompter, are always parentheses in an ongoing story of chaos, wackiness and unnecessary firestorms.
The larger meaning of the controversy isn’t about the normalization of antisemitism on the right, despite what some progressives charge. The condemnation of Trump’s instantly notorious dinner with two antisemites, one world-famous (Ye, better known as Kanye West), the other obscure (Nick Fuentes, not better known as anything), has been fierce and near-universal, and eventually, this outrageous episode will fade into the background like all the others.
