Donald Trump in full reelection mode

Donald Trump is looking increasingly confident as he starts to campaign vigorously for reelection in November. As the slowly dwindling Democratic candidate rivals bicker at each other Trump has leapt on his impeachment acquittal to strengthen his hopes/expectation of winning another four-year term. He dismissed the impeachment process as a witchhunt and fake news but, secretly, I bet he was seriously worried about the possible impact it would have on his reelection campaign. His acquittal was never really in doubt but all the bad news the Senate trial stirred up could have damaged his first-term legacy. But judging by the way he has behaved and the way the Democrats have looked and sounded worried about whether the impeachment issue might undermine their own hopes of winning back the White House, it seems as if Trump has been given a new lease of life. The impeachment shadow has gone and he is raring to go. The moves he has been making in the White House have demonstrated his determination to surround himself with only confirmed loyalists. He swiftly got rid of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman, Ukrainian expert in the National Security Council, plus his twin brother Yevgeni, also a lieutenant-general, and Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the EU, for daring to speak out against him in the impeachment process. And he is bringing back into the White House past loyalists, notably Hope Hicks, former model and super communications ally to the president before she departed the White House two years ago, and John McEntee, former personal assistant to Trump (known in Washington as his "body man") who will now run the White House personnel department. Wait for more changes. Anyone who even sniffs of disloyalty or leaking tendencies will be out. Now there's nothing unusual about a president wanting to be surrounded by a loyal staff. It makes sense. But with a man like Trump in charge at the top who functions according to gut instinct, there will be an increasing need for wise counsellors around him to point out the error of his ways when required. But Trump looks reinvigorated, a fist-pumping president looking to defeat all his enemies, especially those in the Democratic Party. Will Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg or Elizabeth Warren or Mike Bloomberg or Amy Klobuchar, stand a hope in hell of beating him? I doubt it.