WASHINGTON, D.C. July 29 (DPI) – Wallowing in his usual self pity and still lashing out at critics, Trump shows no real enthusiasm for a second term with the election just three months away.

His erratic behavior – just yesterday he re-tweeted a Coronavirus cure suggested by a quack doctor, and later he stormed out of a press conference – seems to be intensifying. He trails badly in all polls, with little potential for recovery as he makes clumsy claims intended to energize his base of working class whites.

But his base, in states now focusing on a surge in Coronavirus cases, has no longer the energy to blindly back the Divider in Chief. Part of it is the Coronavirus, which continues to grind along into a hot summer, and a once-solid constituency is weary from the slow and uneven return to normal.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the political spectrum, the American left is dealing with its own issues of intellectual intolerance and ideological purity, undermining its ability to attract a broad base and turning off moderates. Its followers have been in the streets of major cities since the killing of George Floyd; as the weeks pass public support for such protests is ebbing.

It’s all adding up to an opening for American conservatives who never had a taste for Trump in the first place, but who now are emerging as a real force in Trump’s ouster. They are likely to be a force to oppose a dominant Democrat majority in Washington in 2021.

Columnists and journalists are finally leading a rejection of both extremes. They include Max Boot of The Washington Post, independent journalist Matt Taibbi, Andrew Sullivan (who recently left NY Magazine under pressure from colleagues), WSJ Columnist Heather MacDonald (among other WSJ columnists), Bill Kristol of The Bulwark, and even longtime NYT columnists David Brooks and Maureen Dowd.