How many terrifying chapters are left in Donald Trump’s book? Americans are trying to find it, trying to escape the seemingly endless story.
Polls show that many Americans, for a variety of reasons, aren’t all totally noble or trying to save “democracy,” but the extremism of Trumpism and the larger Republican fascist movement. , is shown to be disgusted with turmoil and chaos. In the recent midterm elections, millions of Americans voted to slow or stop the Republican “red tide”, and in doing so won a temporary reprieve in their struggle against authoritarian rule.
At a basic level, the midterm elections saw most of the major candidates Donald Trump personally endorse rejected in the polls, as did other banner carriers endorsing the big lie about the 2020 election. So it also represented a direct backlash against Donald Trump. Even Republican voters and former Trump voters seem sick of him.
Many of those voters still support Trumpism and neo-fascism for a variety of reasons — racial grievances, political violence, moral panic over the “culture wars” issue, and more. Anti-Democratic Behavior, etc. — “Package. I’m thinking about it, but would like to do it in a more “respectable” or “professional” way.
Republican elites and gatekeepers are clearly fed up with what they now see as the limits of Donald Trump in advancing their authoritarian agenda. It was a successful proof-of-concept of how to undermine 21st-century American democracy by breaking long-standing norms and institutions, until the failed coup attempt that culminated on January 6, 2018. As president, Trump also played a very important role in the “conservative” movement’s counter-revolutionary agenda. That’s largely because he appointed his three right-wing Supreme Court justices and reorganized the federal judicial system.
The mainstream media and their professional centrists are also fed up with Trump and his movement, Keen to nominate a new more “mainstream” and “traditional” Republican leader, perhaps heralding a return to “normal politics” and an end to the existential threat to American democracy. . Such conclusions are premature and based on hope rather than evidence. In fact, this represents a fundamental misunderstanding of political reality and the real danger of American neo-fascism.
There is a basic problem here. By and large, the American public and political class are fed up with Donald Trump. But he’s not tired of the spotlight or ready to leave the public eye.
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It’s an undeniably dangerous situation. Trump is probably a sociopath, if not a psychopath. He possesses tremendous charm and dark charm, and is still the leader of a cult with tens of millions of followers. He has been charged with a number of overt crimes, including violating the Espionage Act and his January 2021 coup attempt, and continues to threaten violence and chaos if charged. Neo-Nazis and other anti-Semitic hatemongers.
For Trump’s supporters, the destructive and anti-social energy he unleashed is experienced as a powerful force of liberation, an opportunity for revenge against the elite they believe oppressed them.
A few weeks ago, Trump announced that he would finally run for president again in 2024. Trump suggested that if he returned to the White House, he would seek revenge against his designated enemy. Trump also said he would forgive his supporters who attacked the Capitol on January 6.
Of course, Trump followers and cultists would welcome such tyranny. They never want the story to end. For them, the chaotic, destructive and anti-social energy of Trumpism is a powerful force of liberation, “political correctness” and an opportunity for revenge against the “elite” they believe has oppressed and marginalized them. It is experienced as
In a recent interview with The Guardian, Republican strategist, Lincoln Project co-founder and never-Trump conservative leader Rick Wilson discussed the likely direction of the 2024 presidential election. I have issued a warning. He said conservatives who turned against Trump in 2022 said six or seven years ago that “Donald Trump could never win the Republican nomination and that Donald Trump would never win the Republican nomination.” Trump could beat Hillary Clinton.”
“I know Republicans are acting very boldly now and donor nations are very jolly.
“Now they’re all talking shit. ‘I’m not going with Trump. I’m going with DeSantis, a hot new number.'” DeSantis handed his ass to him When, in a debate or forum, when he cleans his watch, or simply when Trump grinds him up and eats him mentally alive for weeks on end, suddenly Donald Trump’s numbers start showing up again. I was. Conservative thinkers like now are saying, “I will never vote for Trump again. We have integrity!” “Well, we don’t like Trump’s tweets, but otherwise it’s pure communism!”
“It’s all bullshit, it’s all a fucking game, and the game will play out in a way that doesn’t lead to the outcome that the Donor Class thinks it’s going to get.”
Wilson is highly skeptical that mainstream media-nominated Trump replacement, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, can actually beat Trump in a head-to-head. “Has he really faced the full campaign of brutality and brutality that Donald Trump is leveling against him?” Wilson asks. “He didn’t”:
“In the Republican primary against Trump, even Trump in his weakened state still possesses an innate wild brutality and cunning that Ron DeSantis lacks.
“Suddenly, all the donations will say, ‘Oh shit.’ “This one has to sit for a while. Let’s see what it looks like in a month.”
“It’s been a month and all of a sudden, Donald Trump is nominated. That’s how it goes. I’m not saying this with pleasure, I’m saying it because I just went to this fucking party too.” I’m there. ”
Donald Trump has multiple avenues to continue to dominate the Republican Party and threaten the American people. At this point, he remains his 2024 Republican front-runner. He has a solid base among older conservative voters, far stronger and deeper than any of his rival camps. He has raised a huge war chest for his 2024 campaign and the associated Super PAC.
Republican voters will choose Trump, knowing that his return to power will bring new chaos and destruction.
If Republican voters and right-leaning independents were given the chance to choose between Donald Trump and Joe Biden (or literally any other Democrat), almost all of them would overcome the resistance they felt. and choose trump. They will do this knowing that Trump’s second term will bring new chaos and destruction. And, of course, if Trump is not the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, he will do everything in his power to destroy the Republican Party and commit acts of malice and revenge.
The mainstream media, professional political watchers, and “upstanding” conservatives have repeatedly assured that the Republican Party and its voters are on the verge of abandoning Trump and returning to something akin to political normalcy. not. Ultimately, Trump understands the party and its voters, and the underlying cultural and social ills and troubles that gave birth to his neo-fascist movement, much better than conservatives and the media elite do. Until the Republican leadership solves that mystery, they will remain slaves to Donald Trump and his supporters, no matter how much they want to escape.
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