How Five Days Became Five Months

Good Monday, Friends,

Can you believe that just five days ago, we were still talking about Donald Trump's not backing down from his flagrantly anti-Semitic tweet that originated on a White Supremacist website?

The world has changed completely since then.

In that time, we lived through horrors in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas, charges not being brought against Hillary Clinton for her private email server, and Trump quietly winning over his party at a meeting with GOP congressmen in Washington that nearly went unnoticed. 

WorldsBestPundit says he thinks I can act presidential for the next 100
days. Whaddya think? Should I make him look stupid?

Trump has been relatively quiet for the past five days, and what little he's said was carefully scripted. It was also uncannily presidential sounding. 

He's giving his first campaign speech today since the massacre of police in Dallas. This one will be on teleprompter, to a crowd in Virginia Beach. He's been good at sticking to talking points when scripted.

Could the five-day respite from campaigning have been a turning point for Trump? Will he do as his party has been begging him and stay on message?

I don't like to keep repeating myself, but a day is like a week in politics, and each of the last five days has been more like a month.

Our collective memory is notoriously short, and we are pretty forgiving when it comes to some of the people for whom we vote. What Trump did last week is already foggy.

His basic message has plenty of general appeal, but The Donald has had such high negatives, he's failed to attract more than 45% of the general electorate in any national poll. 

This also means, though, he only has to nudge about six percent of the voters his way to be president; even less if Gary Johnson has any impact on the race.

Looking as presidential as he did in his YouTube response to the Dallas tragedy may just start turning things his way. 

Can he be presidential for the next 100 days? 

I've just seen the first 10 minutes of today's scripted speech. 

My gut is, Friends, that he actually can.