What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Doubtful another party could emerge, but Trump could conceivably get the most support as an independent since Ross Perot, who managed to make it onto the debates. And these independents can have a huge impact on elections. I seem to remember that the Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for siphoning off vital votes from Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.

The biggest canary in the coal mine for Trump is going to be what the noises coming out of the extreme right are over the next two years, as voiced by the likes of Greene and Boebert, and also what the chatter is on the militia/QAnon/alt-right scene. If that lot start hitching their flag to another figure, Trump is dead as a dodo. It's not as if all the people who participated in, and/or endorsed 6/1 have suddenly morphed into sane, rational people. They're still out there. They know how close they came to bringing down the whole edifice of American democracy. They're not going to just stop scheming. Does Ron DeSantis go far enough for these people? Would DeSantis court their vote if he did decide to run for president?

Although the election denial candidates of Trump lost out, it's not as if they got so few votes that they were irrelevant. Many of the races were close, so there are still a lot of people out there in America who either believe in that stuff or won't condemn it, which remains a huge worry for the country. Any emerging Republican candidate, like DeSantis, has to figure out how to build a coalition between that and more moderate voters. There's going to be a lot of brainstorming among Republican strategists over the next while in order to decide the correct balance to strike.

I don't think the Republican party are worried about baggage so much as who can get the votes. They would still be forced to row in behind Trump if that's who their base chose. That's kind of been the story of the Republican party over the last 7 years or so.

But yes, the Republican party will be doing a lot of polling to try and determine exactly how big the hardcore MAGA base is and go from there. If it's small enough, there remains the possibility to cut it out of the equation entirely. Would be a lot less of a headache for the party, for sure.

The only thing is that the issues that Trump tapped into for the Republican base haven't entirely evaporated. Southern border security remains a concern, and propping up culture war bogeyman to knock down looks like a big hit for DeSantis, as does the idea of a candidate who will talk back to the media. How many of these talking points would a challenger to Trump retain in their election platform, and how much of it is too much for the independent American voter?

Space Karen running a Twitter poll on whether T***p should be reinstated. Hard to believe this is real life sometimes but here we are.

Throwback to this tweet...

Trump getting allowed back on Twitter is a win in the same way getting offered a return trip to Southhampton from New York was a win after an unsinkable ship hit an iceberg.

Just in case you forgot why he was banned...

He probably did and we all know what The Chump meant by that !!!!!!!!

The bots have spoken more like. Didn't have the balls to do it himself so had to run a bogus poll. Embarassing stuff yet again from the manbaby.

He belongs in prison.

Holy ****. That’s actually real.