Conrad Black - Trump’s been a president like no other, but his time is passing

 As generally happens in the sixth year of any twice-elected president of the United States, the curtain has begun to descend on the Trump administration, though not necessarily on the Trump era

The people are tiring of his shtick and while his campaign for Republican congressional candidates in October was strenuous and continued to pull large crowds in many places, most everyone is getting a little tired of him.

 This is the traditional American pattern. Virtually every president since Theodore Roosevelt has had this problem.

President Woodrow Wilson’s last two years were a disaster, severely aggravated by a disabling stroke that was concealed from the country. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt lost a good many congressmen in 1938, but the onset of war reinvigorated his career and he was elected twice again for an astonishing four consecutive terms as president, which, irreplaceable though he was, motivated the country to amend the constitution to prohibit presidents from serving a third term. 

We are entering the time when presidents become less active and partisan and move toward the comparative honeymoon of ex-presidents, whose faults are often overlooked and airports and warships are named after them. With President Donald Trump, this will be a more difficult transition than usual, but it should start in the next two years.

A majority of Americans reject socialism and the Democratic victory on Tuesday is in no sense a call for a sharp turn to the left. 

The country has tired of Trump’s technique of haranguing large live audiences with vaudeville personal attacks on his enemies, though they have entertained tens of millions of Americans over the last decade. 

It is now time to start to narrow the partisan gap and even to dream of re-enacting the far-off days of civilized politics that preceded the Vietnam War and Watergate.

 In the meantime, the Democrats will have to be careful not to go cock-a-hoop for the likes of the Islamo-Marxist Jew-baiting senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan.

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