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Napoleon said something like, "I'd rather have lucky generals than good ones." The same goes for presidents, no matter what party the belong to. Reagan, Clinton and Obama were lucky, while Carter and both Bushes were unlucky. For three years and despite all odds Trump appeared to be lucky, but in 2020 his luck ran out. Moreover, it's the general pattern with many Trump projects: after some initial success his investors and people who trusted him ended up being unlucky. He had three or four major business bankruptcies; his personal fixers got in trouble; his marriages don't look great either. He is just bad luck. And he is bad luck for America.

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From the author of ETTD:

"When tested by the fire of crisis, Trump showed us what he’s always been; a weak, spoiled, intellectually vacant conman who has stumbled through a life of betrayal and failure papered over by bullshit and public relations. <...>
There are good leaders, bad leaders, and lucky leaders. Sometimes good leaders have bad luck. Sometimes bad leaders have good luck. This time, we’ve got a bad leader whose luck finally ran out, and whose reservoir of trust outside his base is essentially zero.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/rick-wilson-takes-a-blowtorch-to-trumps-covid-19-failures/

Reagan, Clinton and Obama were lucky, while Carter and both Bushes were unlucky.

I believe these two groups differ more in competence than in luck.

Herbert Hoover might have been more unlucky than incompetent. But the country was lucky to get FDR after him.