Donald Trump knows the game. When a New York Times, RealClearPolling aggregate of twelve independent polls shows his approval at 39 per cent, he doesn’t hesitate. He dismisses the ones he doesn’t like as fake, and insists the real numbers are fantastic, spectacular: “MY REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN. THANK YOU!!! President DJT.”
It’s a coherent fiction, implausible but coherent.
Doug Ford can’t even do that.
