If Trump is prevented from running again, that prevents him from running in any party, not jus the Republican party, right? So I’d think that a third-party threat would incentivize Republicans to vote in favor of impeaching him, not against it. The last thing any of them want is a third party.
If Trump can’t run for President, Trump won’t form a third party. Therefore, it is in the Republicans’ best interest to prohibit Trump from running again. Or am I missing something?
The threat is that even barred from himself running, he will use the Trumpiot Party to deny the Republican incumbents enough votes so that they lose. (And in the case of places like Arizona, probably actually take the established State Republican Party with all its physical and intellectual assets and have it rebrand itself as the Trumpiot Party, leaving the Establishment Republican incumbents to be the ones running as de facto third partiers).
Perversely, to say “I’ll do to you what I did to the Georgia Senators”, but more overtly.
That’s assuming that he has any goals beyond running for President again. If he’s barred from office, would he really bother to do any the things you said? After all, Trump never does anything unless it benefits him. How does sabotaging the Republican party benefit him?
Revenge? Being the power behind the throne?
Trump wants to (a) keep getting money (b) keep having his ego stroked and (c ) keep getting protected from consequences. He’d gladly assume a role of “spiritual leader” if it means money, praise and protection.
And hell, yeah, revenge and payback. The man lives for that. He wants to know he is feared.
Trump will simply ignore the ban. That attracts losers to his cause. Consider everything within our political and legal process that Trump ignored during his candidacy and presidency.
Trumps party will claim the ban is evidence of a deep state conspiracy against Trump. They will have a ‘legal’ basis for their claim that the elections are rigged.
It’s an interesting dilemma for the GOP. Much of the leadership–like McConnell–know that Trump cares about one thing: Trump. They bowed to his nonsense after the election and it likely cost them Georgia. Continuing to bow to his demands is no guarantee that it will help the GOP and it likely might hurt them again.
The GOP really needs to rip off the band-aid, clean the wound and let it heal in the open air and sunshine. Maybe take a course of antibiotics, as the toxin is now in the bloodstream.
What they will probably do is slap another cover on the seeping wound, and pretend it was never there, while blaming others for their sickness.
He might found a church, perhaps? There might be money to be made from that.
McTurtle finds himself in McPickle … if only he’d cut the head of the snake earlier …
As I see it the problem for the GOP is that Trump helps some candidates and hurts others. The nut cases like Boebart and Greene appear to think that driving the Trump train at full speed is the way to go. Those two won’t let the GOP rip off the band-aid.
Best sentence in that article:
What a snowflake, huh? /s
no. stop. don’t split the right-wing vote. that would be terrible. I cannot express my level of concern about this strongly enough.
Heh.
No, following the wise counsel of friend @Gyrate, the GOP really needs to do the opposite of what you suggest. They should tightly wrap themselves and their hardened, irreconcilable positions into airtight, mummified dysfunction, making it possible for all the rest of us sane people to stay safely outside their bloody-minded circlejerk, ignoring them and moving civilization forward.
My words. And still true!
Anybody who thinks trump is going to stay publicly relevant and not just fade away I think is failing to take into account how massively lazy he is. A third ‘Patriot Party’ or whatever it would be called, or a trump News Network, would only happen if he has an army of support to build the entire infrastructure of the thing. Then trump would happily step in and be the face and the babbling voice of it. But he ain’t doing any heavy lifting, metaphorical or otherwise. Other than lifting a 9 iron out of his golf bag.
Personally, I believe he’s just going to fade away. His support is drying up and his public voice has been mostly silenced. I’m hearing reports that Mar-a-Lago is turning into a sad quiet place with membership hemorrhaging, giving me pleasant little frissons of Schadenfreude. And then there’s this, which makes me grin:
This is a good point and I hope the reality proves true. When he (gag) became president, the job came with a built-in staff whose job it was to do his bidding. That all went away. Now he just has a few lackeys and his kids.
Yeah, look how much of his official schedule as pres was marked off as ‘Executive Time’, which everybody knew to mean ‘hours of watching Fox News while scarfing down Big Macs’.
While his hapless staffers ran around in circles. He no longer has that big, paid-for crew.
And no more Diet Coke Button! He’ll have to yell for the maid, or worse yet (horrors) get up and walk to the fridge himself.