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

Sure, the very first thing he had his people do as “President” was to have them lie about crowd sizes. This was mere hours after he took the oath of office and he lied about an objective fact, which set the tone for MAGA. It didn’t even need to look true…if their God King went and told them the sky was green, the MAGA faithful would find ways to explain that blue was just a shade of green. Anyone saying it was blue were just Maoist commie Dems. I feel that is the only metric they ever needed, or need currently. This is why the only solution is to outvote them until they expire of old age or by Darwin Award.

Would De Santis be that much of an improvement? Trump is an out and out eejit, and a dangerous one, but De Santis appears to have - if not intelligence - cunning, deviousness and enough cop on to actually do deliberate damage as against muddling through leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

The Santos heckling at the Trump arraignment was the highlight for me. "Tell us about your Nobel prize George!" Lots ofpeople just pointing and laughing at him.

Daily Show lad Klepper got the mic briefly in front of Santos, you can find it online.

Indeed. I feel thar damn near any Dem candidate could have beaten Trump last time. 2020 was very much a referendum against Trump rather than in favour of Biden. Biden wasn’t Trump, and I feel that was the main thing.

They could however really do with a new energetic candidate. I doubt anyone would blame Biden retiring at this stage in favour of another candidate. I was hopeful that Harris might have been that, but I at the moment I can’t see that working. Biden could still beat Trump in a rematch I feel, but a more “exciting” candidate would make it a sure thing.

The while GenZ and Millennial angle is key too. I feel that overturning Roe v Wade damaged the GOP’s chances in the midterms and their attempts to make abortion drugs illegal / inaccessible is going to do the same damage in the eyes of a whole generation of people who suddenly see their reproductive rights stifled by the red candidates. This will hurt Trump’s chances in 2024 especially if they keep this up. If they had any intelligence the GOP should have just threatened to do these things indefinitely without actually doing it, but now they’ve handed the Dems a mandate to reverse what they’ve been up to.

What is more baffling is that it’s clear that many GOP people don’t really feel all that opposed to abortion options, since a good few have been reported either paying for them, or in some cases getting them themselves. I know it’s an play designed to get hard-core Evangelical voters on-side, and then again within those communities you’ll get plenty of messing about under the veneer of their beliefs. Thus, the GOP continues to damage their chances with several generations of voters, all for banning a reproductive right that they or much of their target audience don’t really mind people having. It’s about as mindless as them still allowing Trump to railroad their party.