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

Let us not forget in the 14th Amendment ........"or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." Not admonishing their actions yet rather applauding and calling them patriots I love you, and with pronouncements he would pardon them would seem to me is giving aid and comfort.

If lawyers representing Trump are going to argue for a narrow scope of what the text in question means, they're probably going to be looking for supporting historical documents to back that up like letters and minutes of debates and so on. If they're going to argue an originalist position, they're going to need to establish what was originally meant when the text was written.

Poor trump is All Shook Up with people with Suspicious Minds trying to get him into a Jailhouse Rock.

America is a country where you'll have a tough time applying for menial jobs with a criminal conviction and your voting rights are stripped, but you can still run for president.

So, I don't even think that a conviction would even hurt Trump that much. He'll probably never see the inside of a jail cell, number one, or if he did he'd probably get a whole wing to himself, and he could still run for president. He'd be the far-right Nelson Mandela. The problem is that America is has become so polarised that not even a full sweep on possible convictions against him will be seen as an innate disqualifier, but rather as an attempt by 'the deep state' to silence him. Once it gets to that point, you cannot rely on process to save things since a massive amount of Americans will not abide by it.

Possibly, but considering he's lost in every election since 2016 you'd think he'd have gotten tired of losing by now. Apparently not.

Trump's opponent, Nancy Pelosi, lost the Nevada Primary to 'none of these candidates'

@Rawr

Disagree. I would agree, though, if there were another individual as caustic as Trump, but there isn't. There are a few tribute acts floating around, but their similarities are either partial or just a vestige, a personality that they don. Yeah, the Trump base would dearly want him to president, but his great value is as an agitator and disrupter. The base will not move on from unless their is a major cultural change among them or they find someone who is just as odious and charismatic as he is. They've already shown strong loyalty to him through a failed reelection bid and a midterm where his endorsements got beaten. That loyalty is not based on pragmatism, but primal feeling.

I thought this WP analysis was quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gCYNaQQ3Bw

It backed up the fact that Trump's numbers in both Iowa and New Hampshire were quite low, considering he's basically running as an incumbent (being a former President). He's not attracting "on the fence" Republicans or Independents - obviously a fair portion of people that voted for Haley will just row in behind whoever the nominee is. However, not all of them will, which would likely be his undoing in a general election.

It's just amusing to me that the GOP are intent on choosing a candidate that probably can't win (Trump) over a candidate that probably would win in a general election (Haley). It makes no sense at all. They're happier having Trump as their leader than they are actually winning.

I mean, he could very well still win due to the weakness of Biden as a candidate. But they'd have a much better chance with Haley than with a 4 times indicted and twice impeached former President who'll likely have at least one criminal conviction against his name by November, not to mention the fact that he's already a court-certified sex pest.

I think Biden's approval rating is a bit unfair on him. He's actually accomplished a lot domestically in his first term. It's a shame he's not ten years younger.