Trump's Campaign of Vengeance Is Already Backfiring

(The Atlantic) Donald Trump likes to say that his campaign of vengeance is only fair. Given that he had to endure years of (supposedly) phony legal claims and censorship on various social-media platforms, Trump insists that he now has the right to retaliate in kind.

“They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!,” Trump wrote in a social-media post last week. “They did it with me for four years,” he told reporters.

But Trump’s plans are not going as he might have hoped. And he should have predicted as much. A favorite point Trump used to make about the many efforts to silence and convict him, besides that the news was all fake and his tormentors were all scum and secretly working for Joe Biden, was that these strategies were backfiring. “Every time they give me a fake indictment, I go up in the polls,” he would say. Trump is hardly an objective analyst, but about this, he was right.

He now seems to be similarly boosting the reputation of his enemies.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-shortsighted-campaign-vengeance-234300262.html