We will soon see whether Republicans have become less gullible and Democrats less timid. If they have, Trump will be in jail when the next president is sworn in. If not he'll merely lose his election and depress votes for other Republican candidates, threatening to do for the Republican Party at the national level what has already happened to the Republican Party within California. And of course if he loses the primary to someone like DeSantis he will run as a third-party candidate and completely derail Republican chances in 2024, blowing up the party to salve his wounded ego.
Nothing illustrates the arc of the Republican Party better than it starting with President Lincoln who governed with such careful brilliance and ending with President Trump who is such a reckless idiot.
I had a number of early Trump supporters tell me that one reason they loved him is because he is a billionaire and doesn't need their money. And of course Donald has never made more money than he has in fund raising from these same people. Trump's candidacy will garner him a boatload of money. And in his mind, as long as he gets money and attention, he's already a winner. The GOP - even our country - was never more than just a prop in his oddly chaotic reality TV show of a political career, his quest for power destined to go down as history's most desperately tragicomic compensation for erectile dysfunction.
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