so like two weeks into his campaign, he says the thing and is denounced widely. his campaign says he "misspoke". this was later upgraded into a full apology. later, after his political career was a smouldering crater, he authored a book retracting the apology and accused the GOP of not standing by him and the "media" of being full of bullies.
[dumpster fire sets fire to own dreams] -> "whoops." -> "i was wrong and i apologize." -> "i am not sorry, fuck all of you." -> [dies of cancer]
i don't know that there exists a single polar opposite of a "redemption arc", but this has got to be one of the archetypal alternatives.
I mean this is true in the sense that it was a massively dumb thing to say that destroyed his political carrier and he probably deeply regrets having said it.
so like two weeks into his campaign, he says the thing and is denounced widely. his campaign says he "misspoke". this was later upgraded into a full apology. later, after his political career was a smouldering crater, he authored a book retracting the apology and accused the GOP of not standing by him and the "media" of being full of bullies.
[dumpster fire sets fire to own dreams] -> "whoops." -> "i was wrong and i apologize." -> "i am not sorry, fuck all of you." -> [dies of cancer]
i don't know that there exists a single polar opposite of a "redemption arc", but this has got to be one of the archetypal alternatives.
I mean this is true in the sense that it was a massively dumb thing to say that destroyed his political carrier and he probably deeply regrets having said it.