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

Scalise has withdrawn from the race to be Speaker, acknowledging he won't get enough votes.

Pretty much just leaves Gym Jordan, but also doesn't mean he'll get enough votes to win. Probably not for several rounds of voting anyway.

There's some living memory in much of Europe of what living under a extreemist dictatorship looks like. I'd to think that that fallout from the subsquent generations has fostered a greater appriciation for liberal democracy. But for the Americans, their last brush with facism was over 150 years ago, and came in the guise of the technically democratic Confederate States of America. I fear that more than enough time has passed for some Americans to dangerously assume that facisim could never raise it's head in the "Land of the Free".

So their guard is down, and the notion of comparing MAGA with Nazism is rubbished by its defenders. But the comparisons are there, and the insidious thing about facisim is that it often markets itself well and provides hope to other hopeless people that they can become part of a bigger whole that will embrace them & reward them at the potential expense of people they don't approve of.

Before Trump managed to rebrand all of this as "MAGA", the mindset of GOP extreemists was just that: "extreemism". But now, post Trump, this is a "movement", a political force...a "cause". They will fight the Woke, they will defend Jesus, and they will safeguard the rights of "traditional legacy Americans" (or white, straight, probably Evangical Christian rural Americans) against the "Globalist Caballs!" (Read: Jewish people) and their insidious plans to replace white people with non-white people...for reasons(?).

These people already existed, it's just that this Orange rapist lummox gave them a symbol to organise around, and now thanks to this the GOP probably can't even decide on a shared lunch order together due to Gaetz complaining that the cafe wasn't "American enough" or some similar nonsense.

I do hope that moderate independant voters are observing all of this and remembering it for when they cast their vote.

ETTD.

Amusing that Scalise has bailed and now Jordan's back on the radar, after having endorsed Scalise. And rumors of a '90 day temporary Speaker' so they can work this out. Constitution, anyone?

More states than just CO.

I think the way it works, is the court will establish whether the events of the 6th met its (the courts) definition of insurrection, whether TFG engaged in it and therefore is ineligible to run for office.

One can hope the court will; of course, there'll be appeals up to the SCOTUS.

The 14th amendment states 'insurrection or rebellion'.

On the one hand the dictionary definition or rebellion is 'open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government', but also 'opposition to one in authority or dominance' (Merriam Webster). Britannica says its 'an effort by many people to change the government or leader of a country by the use of protest or violence' Collins Dictionary says 'A rebellion is a violent organized action by a large group of people who are trying to change their country's political system'.

Merriam Webster's meaning of insurrection is 'the act or an instance of revolting especially violently against civil or political authority or against an established government'.

Insurrection and rebellion are synonyms of each other.

Normally I might agree with you, but Lindell in particular seems especially feckless. I feel it’s beyond him to shuffle money about in various Cayman or Swiss banks. He can’t pay his Minnasota-based legal firm (likely retained just because they were local to him) because his pillow business is going under. This is the same pillow business that he fronted as essentially their mascot and spokesperson (he was The MyPillow Guy), and then proceeded to use his personal brand to front an extreem conspiracy theory that discouraged sales. He is so blockheaded that he personally tanked the very brand that enabled him to even have a public voice. If Lindell really has pissed away his entire business and it’s assets, I honestly think that’s all he has. I honestly think he is too single-minded and feckless to plan ahead for an emergency. I feel that he’s pissed it all away on legal fees, Cyber Symposia, and on cosplaying as a news anchor on his own streaming TV channel.

Unless there’s enough of a speech scene for Lindell to get appearance fees, we might not see much more of them. I don’t sense there will be much of an audience in the MAGA crowd for hearing the story of a has-been who lost it all for believing too hard in their nonsense. He might be able to scream to the rafters about how the Globallist Cabal bankrupted him for trying to spread “The Truth”, but without the support structures he had with MyPillow I don’t know how much staying power he’s going to have.

I feel that in future, Lindell with become a cautionary tale of what cultish obsession can do to a person if they let it.