The Simple Reason Trump Makes No Sense in 2024
For the sake of argument, let’s agree 2020 was stolen.
Donald Trump lost in 2020 while in control of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security. He had Republicans in charge in Georgia and Arizona, with legislative majorities in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. And the race was still stolen. Now, with Christopher Wray still at the FBI and Joe Biden in charge of the federal government and Democrats in charge of Arizona, fully entrenched in Pennsylvania and Michigan, in charge now of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and with Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger still in Georgia — how exactly will the election not be stolen from Trump?
For the sake of argument, let’s agree 2020 wasn’t stolen.
How does Trump get back the voters who left him in 2018, 2020, and 2022? In 2022, Independent voters sided with the incumbent White House party for the first time since 2002, despite high inflation and a bad economy. 13% of Republicans sided with the Democrats too because they’re all tired of the stolen election nonsense. Last night in Wisconsin, the conservative judicial pick lost, in part, because he was a stolen election guy. Trump, at Mar-a-Lago, again cilnged to the stolen election mythology.
How does Trump change the dynamic to win in 2024? Either it was stolen and now the landscape is even more favorable to theft or it wasn’t stolen and antipathy of Trump has either grown. In either case, why would the GOP want to back him particularly if he could only even serve just four more years if everything went flawlessly, which it won’t?
What if...yeah, I know I sound like a conspiracy nut, but...what if the SOLE reason for the indictment in NYC is to bring a weak case that cannot fail to be seen as a political persecution, just so that Trump's base will be fired up, people who don't much like him but like political persecutions even less would rally to him in defiance against the weaponization of the rule of law, other Republicans and Conservatives will be forced to take sides and they will have effectively splintered the Republican Party going into the nominations.
I do believe the election was rigged. By states changing voting laws in violation of their own state laws, by not verifying ballots and by massive ballot harvesting. Rigged by media and politicians outright lying, censoring, covering up, and manipulating facts. Heck if one goes back and reads the "manifesto" from that group which details everything they did to interfere with the 2020 election and still walks away saying, "it was a fair election", one must be a bit crazy. And that being said, I do not want Trump to be the candidate. I don't think any republican is going to win the election anyhow, but I still don't want Trump as the candidate.