The Biggest Political Back Fire
So let me explain what camp I am in.
There is the camp that says this is designed to bolster Donald Trump’s nomination so they can beat him. Some of you are probably in that camp. You think the Democrats calculate that by indicting Trump, they’ll help him in the GOP primary. They think they can beat him in the general, and this indictment might push him across the finish line as the GOP nominee.
Perhaps.
But the camp I’m in is that Alvin Bragg represents a wing of the Democrat Party that is on the short bus of the party. He’s not very bright. I suspect the grand jurors are just rabid progressives, too, and they are all in the wing of “let’s put the SOB behind bars.” They hate him. They call him vulgarities instead of the President. They just want him in prison, and they’ll do anything to get him there.
They are not smart enough to consider the ramifications and too blinded by rage against Trump to care.
I believe this is not to help Trump win the Republican nomination but to find a way to jail him.
The reality, however, is that this will help Trump immensely. Not only has the threat of indictment skyrocketed Trump to the top of GOP polling, but the case is so, so thin that Trump is very likely to get acquitted.
In the past few days, after they all read David French in the New York Times, abject panic began setting in for the smart Democrats. They now realize that trying to get Trump on this is dubious. He could drag this out so the trial doesn’t happen for some time. Trump could time this for an acquittal before the GOP primaries.
That helps Trump secure the nomination, and Americans do not like witch hunts. The independents who don’t care for him but do not hate him could swing decisively and sympathetically in his direction just as a recession is breaking out.
Alvin Bragg could very well have gotten Trump re-elected.1
I honestly hope that is not the case. I think Trump needs to go away. I think there are better candidates who could serve eight years instead of the four Trump could serve.
But I suspect this indictment will backfire, and Trump will benefit, and Democrats will have to reap what they decided to sow.
When you take a “put the SOB behind bars” emotional approach, don’t be surprised when it blows up in your face.
Trump, like everyone, deserves a presumption of innocence, and, should the indictment get tossed because of just how dubious and frivolous it is, Trump will deserve to benefit as the ultimate F.U. to aggressive political prosecutors putting their emotions, rage, and ambition ahead of the rule of law.
That is my view, but Echelon Insights polled this issue before the indictment and found Republican primary voters shifted 13 points to Ron DeSantis on the question of “who do you support if Trump gets indicted.” Trump still wins, but there is a big shift to DeSantis.
Okay, I’ve never been Trump’s #1 fan. I liked his policies, but his ego gets in his own way, and although I felt the majority of the attacks against him were unfounded, I can see that he brought some of that on himself…some, not all. I’ve been hoping he’d sort of fade into the distance and we’d have a decent candidate that could turn this foundering ship of state around.
But then yesterday, when Pelosi smugly tweeted that he was being “granted” a chance to “prove his innocence”, I was furious. Because that’s not how American jurisprudence is supposed to work, but that IS what he’s been forced to contend with since he beat Hilary…proving his innocence. At this point, it seems the whole system is upside down…you’re guilty if they say you are, unless you can prove otherwise.
Add to that KJP moaning about how their hearts go out to the “transgender community” after one of the members of that “community” had just murdered six people, three of them children…well, I can see how people get pushed over the edge.
This is my take. The dems in 2016 propped Trump up because out of all the candidates he was the only one that Clinton could beat. Well it backfired on them and Trump was elected. That started the I hate Trump syndrome. They still hate him and through all of their efforts they can’t get rid of him. He doesn’t play by their rules. They should have let him get elected. In another year and a half he would be gone for good. And I believe this country would not be in the mess it is in now. All that being said I still wish he would go away and let DeSantis run. This is going to get ugly and millions of our dollars will be wasted for what? I guess this is the new normal.