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

Just watching a bit of that town hall thing.

"So, that rigged election..."

"Mr Trump, there's no evidence the election was rigged."

"Huh. So, anyway that crooked rigged election..."

The host got steamrolled and CNN essentially aired An Audience with Donald Trump. If Netflix had produced it, they could have put it under the category of standup and it would have been their biggest special of the year.

Trump looking like he's having a great time.

We'll see... Biden has brought the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon, so it's not like Trump has a high bar of achievement to get over if he gets into office. He just needs to be a bit less useless than Biden.

And objectively speaking, he was considerably less useless than him the first time around. Both in terms of the economy and avoiding dangerous military conflicts. We'll never know if Trump could have done something different to avoid this mess in Ukraine. I suspect he very well could have. But one thing is for certain, Biden is doing nothing constructive to bring this conflict to a speedy conclusion. In fact it looks to be the opposite, his administration is playing a very dangerous game with all of our lives by deliberately refusing to broker any peace deal.

I don't really care how many people on here have a pathological hatred of the guy. I don't much like him either as a person, but I try to look at things objectively. And I think a lot of Americans do as well. Trump will be seen as worth voting for, as the "anyone but Biden" candidate, in a sort of role reversal from the last election.

"We'll see... Biden has brought the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.."

Odd that you say you look at things objectively when you do the exact opposite.

You have given Trump a free pass on everything. Why have you no issue with his disastrous handling of Covid, where he was more focused on political point scoring that people's lives. Or his complete failure on health care, admitting that it was far more complicated than he thought. Or his failure to deliver on his economic agenda, giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy and getting little economic uplift in return. Or his failure on the wall. Or what about him losing his serial battery and defamation case. Or his payments to shut up a porn star.

How about his lying? Or his attempt to steal the 2020 election?

None of that matters to you, because objectively Biden is worse for you.

Yes, on that line of 'my will never know'. We have a pretty good idea given the result of his four years. He was completely subservient to Putin in Helsinki, even siding with Putin over his own country. we know he tried to withhold support from Ukraine before, so why you do think he would threaten them again to get them to agree to whatever Putin wanted?

So even if you opt to ignore all of that, on what basis are you thinking that Trump would do better? Why not even worse? What are you basing your bias on him getting it done? SUrely not just because Trump says he would do it? Like he said he would build the wall, or fix Obamacare, or give tax cuts to the middle income earners, or clear the national debt.

How, objectively, have you arrived at the position that Trump would do a better job?

Can you name a few of these policies you liked?

It doesn't work that way. Establishment Republicans would get rid of Trump tomorrow, if they could, and they were pretty against him in 2016 right up until it became clear that he would be the nominee. For them, it's power over principle. They know that if they take a stand against Trump, he'll take half their base with him and render the party unelectable and that's not something they're willing to tolerate. Therefore, they're stuck with him.

Look at Ted Cruz, if you can stomach it. He outright refused to endorse Trump at the 2016 RNC, but was phone banking for him a few months later. Then, he went away for a little bit, grew a beard and came back pretending he was with Trump all along. That's the mindset in that party. Most of the politicians in that party who were against Trump openly have been purged from it. Others have probably just stayed quiet or are pretending to agree with him, like Cruz. Trump is literally not going anywhere until he dies or the base turns on him. That's it.

In reality, giving Russia some of what they want (or already hold) is likely the only way to end this thing. Trump would be pragmatic enough to recognise that if it is the case. I don't think he cares much about Ukraine or Russia, he cares more about his own nation and also preventing this thing turning into a much broader catastrophic global conflict - because that is bad for everyone.

There is next to no chance of Ukraine winning outright and pushing Russia out of all their territory... that much is abundantly clear to most intelligent observers. It's only those that have been completely bought and sold by propaganda who believe in that possibility. (which is amusing considering many of these same people consider Trump to be lacking in intelligence, yet he has figured out the obvious reality on the ground in Ukraine, while his haters are still believing in a fantasy outcome that will never happen)

I'm sure Trump will also be well aware of how big a role his own nation has played in this conflict, and how big a role they are playing in making sure no peace deal takes place. He would be privy to far greater information on exactly what has been taking place, than all the armchair amateur geopolitical "experts" on forums such as this... (no offence intended of course)

Which policies are these?

For the second time of asking, what policies?