Just Being Honest With Y'all — I'm Struggling to Care

He just made it so easy for them.

I think the January 6 indictment is politically motivated. The Democrats and press have spent too much energy defining what happened on January 6th as an “insurrection” for there not to be indictments.

It was the first insurrection in American history where the flag-waving rednecks showed up without their guns. I mean, we are literally talking about some of the most well-armed people in America — Trump voters from the South — and the press and Democrats want us to believe they launched an unarmed insurrection. It boggles the mind.

I think January 6th was a terrible day, and I think Trump provoked it. I have regularly said it was an incursion into the Capitol, but that was only an insurrection if Joe Biden is a MENSA candidate.

However, I struggle to care about Donald Trump getting indicted because, frankly, these are his chickens coming home to roost.

The man could have pardoned those January 6th rioters. Instead, he gave Dr. Fauci an award on his way out the door.

Until this very moment, Trump claims to believe that the election was stolen. Apparently, no one dared tell the man that if the Democrats and Republicans working in concert had the power to steal a presidential election across multiple states, they surely had the power to throw him in prison for the rest of his life. And he decided just to keep poking the bear. What the hell did he think was going to happen?

But the election wasn’t stolen. I don’t really think Trump believes it, and I suspect a jury would find he didn’t really believe it because all the sane, smart, credentialed people Trump loved up until he didn’t told him it wasn’t stolen. Only the cranks, the crazies, and the power-hungry told him it was. And he went with them because he is a sore loser. The man who relished telling others they were fired couldn’t handle his own rejection.

So now he’s facing the fall out for being a sore loser and provoking a lot of people to riot into the U.S. Capitol looking for Mike Pence. And again, on his way out the door, he decided to celebrate Anthony Fauci rather than pardon those, his most loyal supporters.

In Florida, Trump decided to hide documents from the very government he claims stole the election. Did he not think they’d come for him? He lied to the National Archives. He hid documents from a Grand Jury. He hid documents from his lawyers.

Did he think there’d be no consequence from an Administration that he thinks is powerful enough to steal the election?

But they didn’t steal it, by the way. But they do hate his guts and he made it so easy for them.

Donald Trump has stepped on every rake, poked every bear, and played every hand as badly as possible. I simply struggle to care that much about a man who clearly does not care to be smart enough not to get himself repeatedly indicted by his political enemies. And yes, there were ways to avoid all this, including handing over the documents when requested and disappearing for a while off the national stage.

Trump’s most loyal supporters claim he is a fighter and genius who somehow couldn’t keep an election from being stolen. They are convinced this time will be different because COVID isn’t around to disrupt things. They have every answer — in fact, they have more answers and apologetics than Christians do for Christianity. I have no idea why God created the universe the way he did, why he let Adam and Eve fall, and whether he’s a supralapsarian or an infralapsarian. (He’s supra, come on, it’s obvious). But Trump’s most ardent supporters have answers for everything.

Their latest is that they might as well sink on the U.S.S. Trump because if Trump isn’t the nominee, any other Republican would get indicted too. Except no other Republican running is stupid enough to keep poking the bear. And no other Republican would be stupid enough to try to hide documents from a Grand Jury and the FBI when handing them back to the Archives would have ended the matter. (See e.g., Mike Pence)

“They’d do this to anyone else” is the unfalsifiable inner monologue you tell yourself when you know you’re wrong but want to console and justify your poor choice.

In other words, it is really hard to care about someone who has made it so, so freaking easy for his political opponents to throw him in prison. It’s like he wants this. And that, frankly, is just another reason the GOP should move on. But I’m starting to believe they’d rather have four more years of Biden. The grift from loss is just too rich.

Meanwhile, boys are taking over girls’ sports; our national credit rating is down; our cost of living is soaring; China is emboldened; the Iranians are belligerent; the economy sucks; and the envirowackos are coming for our stoves, water heaters, and cars. But sure, let’s all get aboard the U.S.S. Trump for another ride. That’s the ticket. There are so many movies where, as tragedy arrives, only then does the soon-to-be dead person realize they made a tragic mistake that has just gotten them killed. At this point, I think that will be the GOP with Trump as nominee. “But Erickson,” you yell. “You got 2016 wrong.” And I’ve gotten every one of them right since. Trump, twice, lost the popular vote. Who on earth will come to him now not already there?

It’s not too late to blow up the damn bridge without losing the country to four more years of Biden.