Karl Rove and Donald Trump consider each other absolute fools. Now they're working together. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images/Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images Karl Rove is back. Last month, the George W. Bush strategist and former genius appeared in the middle of a New York Times report on Trump campaign strategy, in which he perceptively “warned Mr. Trump that he had fallen behind in the task of damaging Mr. Biden.
From the standpoint of ethics the alliance between the two men makes perfect sense. What makes the burgeoning Rove-Trump partnership strange is that the two men consider each other absolute fools. In 2015, at a time when few people gave Trump any chance of winning the nomination, Rove privately described him as “a complete idiot.”
Once Trump had captured the nomination, the two men made a peace of sorts borne of mutual self-interest. Tim Alberta later describes a meeting between Rove and Trump in the spring of 2016, in which Trump attempted to identify which states he could compete in. At first Trump proposes that he can win Oregon, only for Rove to correct him. “I don’t need to,” Trump replied, “I can win California.” After Rove told him he couldn’t win there either, Trump responded, “Well, I’ll win New York.
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