Brooks: Trump ‘Has Gotten a Little Boring and a Little Hapless’

‘I’ve been predicting for 37 straight weeks that Donald Trump will fade’

BROOKS: “Well, first, I’ve been predicting for 37 straight weeks that Donald Trump will fade. And I could be wrong this time. But I’m confident. So, I may be wrong, but I’m confidently wrong, that I think he’s going to begin to fade, in part because, I think he’s gotten a little boring, and also a little hapless. He can afford to look offensive. He can afford to look distasteful. He can’t afford to be boring or incompetent, because his mastery is the whole basis of his campaign. So, I’m feeling a slide. So, we’ll see. As for the risers, it’s no accident. It’s no — not controversial. Carly Fiorina, if you’re on stage with 11 people, one of the acts of genius you have to have is the ability to create a signature moment that can be broadcast and rebroadcast. She has that. She has both the creativity to create those moments with some nice phraseology, and also the passion. And so she’s clearly, I think, rising to the top tier. This is a party that does not — I do not think, at the end of the day, they do not want crazy, so I don’t think they want Trump. They also don’t want Milquetoast. They don’t want vanilla. And Jeb Bush, I’m afraid, is sort of stuck in pseudo-vanilla land. And so they’re going to want — I think Fiorina is right up there, and I think Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) would be the other one, bit of an outsider, a genius for taking complicated situations and explaining them in a way that is clear, without being oversimplified. And so I think you have those two, Fiorina and Rubio, who will get the biggest boosts.”

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