This ought to scare the crap out of you.
There is currently nothing standing in the way of donald trump regaining the Republican nomination in 2024.
(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)
Let's face it. Unlike previous One-Termers who tripped into the shadows of history to write memoirs and appear as commentators on History Channel specials, trump has not gone away and if anything the Republican fanbase still worships this failure. Let us read what Emma Brockes at the Guardian has on the matter:
There was a time – millennia ago in political years – when Trump’s wacky syntax and random capitalization might have been cause for, if not for amusement, exactly, then at least some degree of dismissal. Since the inauguration of President Biden in January, it has been relatively easy to convince oneself that his predecessor has gone away. Sealed up in Mar-a-Lago with various family members, Trump has remained largely absent from public life, surfacing on the 20th anniversary of September 11 this month to commentate on a novelty pay-per-view boxing match with Don Jr in Florida, but otherwise, for those not seeking him out, gone.
The discovery that he has not in fact gone, but is still lurking on the internet disseminating conspiracy theories about the election, brings on the sick feeling you get two-thirds of the way into a horror movie, when a sense of calm is introduced prior to the biggest jump scare. Unlike the first time around, there is no possibility of laughing Trump off or assuming his idiocies won’t find a sympathetic audience. At the rally last week, two Republican congressional candidates addressed the group. A recent CNN poll found that 78% of Republicans didn’t believe that Biden legitimately won the presidency. Rightwing America, and therefore America as a whole, has yet to shake this guy off...
Historically speaking, most One-Termers have the sense to know they lost due to their unpopularity with the majority of American voters and step aside for the next round of party figures to rise to leadership roles. The only one who made a successful run after leaving the White House was Grover Cleveland, because he actually won the popular vote but lost the Electoral (an inversion of trump's situation in 2016) in 1888 and so had an actual advantage in 1892 to win again.
trump may be factually unpopular right now - and likely well into 2024 - to where he'll never perform like Grover Cleveland, but trump's never let the facts get in the way of his constant grift.
trump is running again because he keeps his Big Lie going that "I actually won, if only those idiot state elections officials stooped to cheat for me." he's running because not doing so would undersell that Big Lie to an audience eager to buy that shit up, and this political grift is the only con game he's got left.
Also, trump is hoping that by 2024 the Republican-controlled states would have rigged their electoral counting methods to ensure he and they can steal like they tried to in 2020.
If this doesn't terrify you, that 2024 will generate yet another trump-based constitutional nightmare, then you're not fully understanding the horror.
If there are any hope spots in this horror movie, it's that trump remains under civil and criminal investigation for various misdeeds ranging from defamation, tax evasion and fraud, as well as charges like interfering with elections. Thing is, it's late 2021 and we've (the nation AND the whole planet) been waiting for that shoe to drop, and given how trump's lawyers work every trick in the book to Delay, Delay, Delay we're running into the risk of NONE of these legal matters getting resolved before the next Presidential primaries.
Tick-tock, state attorneys and local DAs. There's a monster roaming the countryside and you're the ones supposed to stop it.
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I read someone speculate that he could "win" the election from jail and then pardon his way out.
The real thing about Fergus is that, for all of his rich guy image, he's never made as much money doing anything else as he is making selling this lie to these idiots.
The elevation of state-level secretary of state to a multimillion dollar competitive race in the red states is a serious danger, and the goddamn Republicans seem to be taking the Ron Paul approach of getting their true believers into place at the county and precinct level, and while that didn't result in a president Paul (thank all of the gods, old and new) it's still a scary tactic in today's electoral landscape.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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