Oh yeah. His disciples totally buy that he is the Savior of America, the only one who can possible stop the End of All We Hold Dear.
And yes, that is dangerous. If he has 50% of the country believing that claptrap he will be the last elected president; it’l be his kids like the Kim regime in NK thereafter. If he has 10% believing that, he’ll be in jail where he belongs, and rightly cast on the disgrace pile next to Nixon.
We shall see.
In pondering whether a conviction and even a pipe dream jail sentence would return maga true believers to reality, it occurs to me that we still haven’t shaken the Confederacy. Maybe in a few hundred years…
Ha! You beat me to the quote.
It really worries me that Trump could be elected again, especially at my age. I don’t want to pass during a civil war, not knowing the outcome.
I’m anxiously and hopefully awaiting a federal court response to Tan the Conman, “You have asked us to interfere in a state judicial proceeding and there is no constitutional basis for your requested relief; therefore, your petition is denied”. And then, one second later, the news announcer says, “Breaking news, Trump has been indicted in Georgia!”
I’m guessing this should be here…Kari’s lawyers are having to start paying for their “mistakes”.
Finally.
I kind of lost faith when more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. Yes, a lot more people voted in the latter as they realized how much was at stake, but they had experienced four years of his bullshit and voted for him anyway.
I wish there was a statistic available on how many people voted for Trump the first time around but not the second. Large or small he scared up a lot more people than needed to replace them.
Naw, I think the chances of a “civil war” are greater if he DOESN’T win.
‘Scared’ is accurate. Trump is very good at making people fear The Others.
Agree that’d be an interesting one. And also of those who voted for Trump the first time, who (including nobody) did they vote for the second time?
The opposite statistic would also be very interesting, Of those who voted for Trump only in 2020, who did they vote for (including nobody) in 2016?
I agree, that would be a very interesting stat. I think it’s safe to speculate there was a significant swath of former Trump voters who jumped ship. All those “suburban women” so often cited in the run-up to 2020 who voted for him the first go-around, only to realize they had signed up for policies like separating desperate families and locking up children.
Hmmmmmmmmmm… On the other hand, I knew a woman who had adopted a foster child from an abusive home, whose mother was a foster mom to abused and medically needy children, who thought separating the migrant children was just fine and dandy because Those People needed to be scared away from invading this country and the children, well, too bad for them.
Ahh yes, the tried and true
White baby good. Non-white baby Non-good. Maybe not even human.
Lotta real human turds seem to believe exactly that.
I don’t doubt it, and I’m sure there were others. But the oft-cited suburban moms were identified as very troubling for the GOP in numerous polls. (Philadelphia suburban moms were often used as a bellwether, which stuck with us because that’s my wife!—though, to be clear, she didn’t vote for him the first time.)
Once theoretical Trump transformed into actual governing Trump, suburban moms—enough of them to matter, anyway—had significant buyer’s remorse. They didn’t knowingly sign up for kids in cages.
ETA: As I recall, suburban dads weren’t as troubled by Trump’s barbarism. There was much less of an exodus from the dark side.
Is this the first time an evangelical body hads actually rejected Trump?
Let’s hope more religious groups hop on this wagon - about time, but not holding my breath, though.
I tend to think of “evangelical” as code for “Culturally reactionary sexist / racist people beholden to brazen grifters, but mistakenly believing Jeebus said this is a good thing”.
Hard to see how they’re going to be dissing Trump much since they (mostly) agree with what he stands for.
It sounds like it was more of a Jewish/Evangelical combined conference, and it was the Jewish part that objected after Trump had dinner with antisemites.
tRump’s Gravy Seals vs. the American military? Please. This “civil war” will make the Grenada incident look like the Hundred Years’ War. I won’t have time to finish my popcorn.
Don’t you mean he had dinner with other antisemites?
My brother-in-law is the only Evangelical Christian I know who didn’t vote for Trump. He said he just couldn’t bring himself to vote for a man whose values were so out of alignment with his. The few other Evengelicals I’ve spoken to over the years acknowledge Trump isn’t a good man, but make excuses for why they voted for him.