And yet, he remains curiously uninterred.
Some day he will get it right.
The superpower of MAGA fans is that they can believe BOTH OF THESE THINGS simultaneously.
Or to put it another way, the superpower of MAGA fans is that their brains are broken.
Thus ‘Trump would have done all he promised except for those meddling Libruls’ coexists with ‘Trump DID do all he promised’ with no problems for MAGA believers, but for the incessant buzzing sound of dying neurons.
I may have posted this before. I really think the two big parties in the United States shoudl switch their logos. Republicans are jackasses.
Funny, the way I remember it is that Republicans controlled both houses of Congress for Trump’s first two years in office, and still couldn’t manage to pass anything except yet another tax cut for the rich.
Loser Donald tried to kick the Libertarians out of the Libertarian Convention so he could pack the audience with his paid Craigslist attendees.
The Libertarians aren’t playing along.
https://x.com/MerylKornfield/status/1794490273810075753
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1794501645323444731
Here’s a nice distillation of how it works:
He spoke, got booed, and cut his speech to 34 minutes. Hopefully this will gut the Mises caucus in the party.
If the Libertarian voting block amounted to more than 1%, it might mean something.
It’s still a group that Trump was desperate to try to appeal to.
Did he ever beg for their votes before?
Which suggests that his confidence in his victory is not quite as high as he claims.
"because we have to get rid of the worst president in history.”
We did, Donny, we did.
That’s my take on it. Trump is so worried about the election he risked public humiliation* to try to win a fraction of a percent of Libertarian voters.
That’s huge, as well as being hilarious.
*he knew this was a risk, which is why he tried to pack the room with his own shills.
Absolutely in character. Just wanting to bully their way into taking over any space they are admitted into and doing whatever they feel like doing, no consideration for rules or etiquette or tradition or gentlemen’s agreements.
Seems the Libertarian Libertarians, as opposed to the Embarrassed to say Republican LINOs, were in a mood to show more spine than the actual Republicans did when faced with that. Which I suppose is easier when you know it’s not like you’ll lose your elected seat since you know you are never getting elected anyway.
I’ll admit I’m wondering what the conspiracy theory / rationale will be about the booing. No way trump and the maga mob could accept disrespect of dear leader.
It obviously has to be one of: made up accusations about the group itself, claiming democrats infiltrated the conference, claiming libertarians actually love him (and here’s someone holding a “libertarians for trump” sign), or, most likely, all of the above.
They weren’t booing, they were saying “LOOOOOOd-wig”.
High point for Presidential elections was 3.28%, 4.4-million votes, in 2016 with Gary Johnson.
Having been a delegate to Libertarian National Conventions, I don’t see what actual impact the shill could have had. The business of the convention is open – anyone can wander in* – but the nominations are made by credentialed delegates and the votes are tallied and reported by state by the state’s chief delegate, typically the state party chair.
I suppose fake delegates could try to crash the process ala the fake electors scheme but that would doubtless lead to a big fight on the floor with the two factions claiming to be the real delegates but failing that they could no more influence the selection than I could showing up in Milwaukee to get Chase Oliver nominated.
*In my experience no one did except the occasional reporter and those seeking the nomination who might or might not be a delegate.
Which in itself looks like bad news for Trump. Or at least one could interpret it that way: possibly in most Presidential elections many who consider themselves Libertarians will vote for the GOP candidate out of a realistic sense that such a vote will get them closer to what they want than would a vote for their own candidate. (Because their own candidate has zero chance of winning, whereas in a close Dem v. GOP standoff, their vote for the GOP candidate might actually have an effect.)
But in 2016, with the GOP candidate being Trump, they…just could not.