I think this is the most important point. Three years is a long time, especially in Trump years.
And while I don’t endorse complacency, I don’t understand the depth of the pessimism in the wake of victory. You know we won, right? And now the other side is fighting back. It would’ve been nice if they didn’t, but that’s not a realistic expectation. And we’re only scared because we’ve seen the playbook. It’s not that the playbook didn’t exist before, but now we know what’s in it. It’s better than not being scared because we don’t know.
I think Trump might run in 2024. This is scary. The idea of him winning is really scary. I think the 2024 version of Trump will be really scary, too. I think Trump will be batshit insane by 2024. I mean, he’s batshit insane now, but I think it’ll be off the charts by 2024.
Trump is living in an alternate reality, one he began constructing, crazy brick by crazy brick, on November 3rd. Back then, you sometimes saw chinks in the walls, Trump might slip and say something that indicated he was aware he’d lost the election, and everyone would say……look, look he’s going to accept reality soon! The wall that separates Trump from reality is coming down! I would say……no, no, you’re seeing these chinks because the wall is still going up. Soon they will be gone. Thinking that Trump just needs time to accept reality is a mistake, one that you are only making because, after four years, you still think there is a normal person inside Trump waiting to come out. But there’s not.
And the wall that separates him from reality has grown into a town, a crazy town that Trump inhabits inside his head.
His only thought is an obsession. He has all day to think about it, and he’ll think about it all day every day for the next three years. This is the man who is still obsessed about someone calling him short-fingered. In 1987. He sees himself as not just a victim, but THE victim, the victim of the greatest crime in the history of mankind. In three years he will make Guiliani and Sidney Powell look sane. And he must be restored to power to avenge that crime.
If he runs, that will be his platform. His entire platform will revolve around his victim hood. His platform will consist of the list of people he’s going to arrest and the upcoming draconian punishments he wants to inflict on them… He’ll give off the rails campaign speeches about executing Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell and Bill Barr. He’ll campaign on declaring war on Italy because they helped. He’ll campaign on nationalizing social media and cable news and arresting every reporter and the officers of every social media company that helped steal the 2020 election from him. He’ll totally derail any Republican that tries to talk about anything else.
I firmly believe that he is that crazy, but I’m not sure whether to hope for the scenario of described above, or to fear it. But I’ve got three years to figure it out.