Trump is done.

[matt_zimmer]

Yeah, I no longer fear November. We are going to win in a landslide.

Look at this shit. ALL of it:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/25/2219448/-Republicans-are-threatening-to-purge-anyone-who-isn-t-MAGA

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/25/2219478/-McConnell-considers-killing-major-immigration-deal-to-help-Trump

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/25/2219511/-The-RNC-says-F-you-democracy-We-pick-Trump

The first link is the actual reason Trump just lost the election. McConnell caving to him is the other. If McConnell were the wily political genius he is often billed as, he would fight this. Because he's capitulating instead, Trump is done.

Let me summarize what has happened in the past two days since Trump's poor showing in New Hampshire and Nikki Haley doing better than expected.

Trump put out a statement that anyone who sends Haley money or votes for her from this point forward is out of the MAGA movement. And that the Republican Party is now MAGA.

Let me tell you what the Republican Party actually is. The Republican Party is the party of "You can't tell me what to do." Politicians are supposed to answer to their voters, not the other way around. Voters don't like being threatened. Republicans in particular detest it.

Trump was VERY careful in 2016 and 2020 NOT to do this which is why so many skeptics held their nose and voted for him anyways. They see that quote? They're gone. Half, (maybe more) will vote for Biden out of pure spite. "You can't tell me what to do!" Biden, being as smart at politics as he is, is gonna jump on this and try to coax these people over to him. It won't be hard.

Our job in November has ceased being merely winning against Trump. It's beating him and the other Republicans so badly we crush MAGA into the ground. Winning back Congress in a landslide and expanding our Senate majority.

The latter sounds impossible on paper. Our Senate map is brutal. Until this. I predict we keep ALL our seats but West Virginia and possibly gain Florida, Texas, and Missouri. And if I were Joe Manchin, I would rethink retiring. As unpopular as he currently is in his state, he could actually win in this climate even if Trump carries West Virginia.

Everything was already aligning for us. Dobbs, January 6, the criminal trials. People feeling better about the economy, and Trump's dementia finally being highlighted. The thing is even with all that, the election still would have been close. Because Trump just threatened voters and told people who refuse to be told what to do, what to do, we are looking at a landslide. If more things like this keep happening, (and they might) we could be looking at a permanent political realignment.

God what an unforced error by Trump. On-brand for that idiot but for once I'm not complaining.

Comments

[jasonderoga86]

I just put up my woes about the border crisis fiasco. Seriously. What. The. FUCK. But hey, the Republican Party did this to themselves after their hissy-fits during Obama's two terms. They were SO angry at the American people that they decided when Obama's successor -- a person of no moral character, a sadistic terrorizer of countless women, a douche with NO political experience whatsoever, an ungrateful asshole who dehumanized the men and women in uniform who fought and DIED so he could live to this age to abuse the powers of the Presidency, and most of all, the WORST example of a spoiled brat -- would be necessary to rally behind to get that ethnic cleansing, that "Christian nation" they craved so much. But now they've realized they rallied behind an unhinged sociopath with a God-complex who's willing to destroy anyone and anything that gets in his way, and for the first time in their lives, they're scared shitless. They see that something even more dangerous than them has taken over the party, and worst of all -- they know they're in too deep to get out, and their fates are now sealed.

Jasmine Crockett was right.

AND I'm not worried about November either. In fact, I hope it arrives soon so the Republican Party is forever disgraced, Trump is in jail or tears himself apart in a mental collapse, and America can close this tragedy in democracy -- the OLDEST of democracies.

[matt_zimmer]

Amen, Nana.

[jasonderoga86]

And another thing: Trump made this cult leader/dictator idea right from the get go, even BEFORE he made his 2024 bid. In 2022, he was calling for the Constitution to be terminated immediately so he could put HIMSELF back in the White House posthaste (his supporters called it "reinstatement", as if such a thing has ever existed). When Facebook and Twitter reopened his social media accounts, he took a different route; since his hair-twitch tendency to terrorize and threaten people online would just as quickly end his accounts again because those sites have RULES, he went and made his own social media platform where HE IS the rules. And those rules are: "I alone can incite political violence and domestic terrorism on this platform if I WANT to, because Mom and Dad taught me that I'm God".

Everyone knew that this runt was hell-bent on nationwide revenge right after that pathetic "Go home in peace, we love you and you're very special" at ease statement after he flipped off the whole country for rejecting him as God, even though he knew they would never reelect him. And why would they? He sat idly by while White supremacist terrorism ravaged the country, he punished the country for protesting George Floyd's murder by weaponizing the military to hunt down BLM protesters, the whole world saw as he had the Border Patrol tear kids and babies from their parents' hands... and then lock them up in cages like animals while Border Patrol ridiculed them as they weakly cried for their parents. He let damn near a HALF-MILLION Americans die from COVID-19 out of pure negligence. And, of course, his endorsement of the Proud Boys and White supremacy in general was one of the most appalling things I've ever heard come out of a politician's mouth, especially being a Black man myself who's faced racism before. And again, he knew America would never reelect him, so that's why he endorsed that racist paramilitary group -- he needed them for his contingency plan on Jan 6., a day he holds so dearly I'll go on the record and say that if he had his way, he'd make it a national holiday. He's been doing it every anniversary since.

You're right about saying he's everything wrong with humanity. He's beyond any redemption or salvation, which is why though I'm not a Christian anymore, I'm really hoping Hell does exist. This disgrace to humanity needs a special spot in that pit reserved for him after all the lives he's ruined and ended, directly and indirectly -- and that includes how his evil views have affected other inspired countries (looking at you, Brazil.).

[matt_zimmer]

The Republicans have brought this misery on themselves. Unfortunately the rest of us have to suffer for it too. We will (and must) crush them.

[jasonderoga86]

Believe me, buddy. You already convinced me that this fight's already over for the Republicans. Like their Leader, they're also choosing to go down by causing America as much grief as possible before the big goodbye. The fact that they have now openly admitted they've abandoned the Constitution and simply don't give a FUCK anymore shows it.

As for the majority of us Americans (Trump's supporters account for less than 25% of the population last time I checked), we've ALL seen what this guy is capable of, and we haven't forgotten how he intentionally let racial violence go unaddressed nor how he intentionally not only didn't care about the Covid crisis but later UTILIZED it with Kushner in a Final Solution-esque move by opening Blue states with a majority of Non-White, non-conservative citizens to let them die from the virus while protecting Red states still in lockdown. In fact, many people online share my opinion that Donald Trump is the biggest mass murderer in American history simply by letting that happen. We lost about 3,200 people on 9/11, and Muslim-Americans were immediately judged as home-grown terrorists that needed to be slain. But Trump allows a near HALF-MILLION of HIS OWN CITIZENS -- INCLUDING SOME OF HIS SUPPORTERS -- to die from a pandemic virus while the rest of the world takes measures to protect themselves, THEN STILL THINKS that despite that, America had no right to vote him out of power simply because his Mommy, Daddy, and bedfellow Putin told him he was God and above every living thing in this country, to the point that he told the whole nation (or at least, those of us who were fed up with the bastard):

"So what if I let a bunch of you die? This is MY country, Goddammit! This is MY White House! If I say I'm staying here till I breathe my last, that's it, end of story! 'Will of the voters', you say? Well, guess what? Fuck your votes, and FUCK ALL OF YOU!"

Oh, he'll be going to a house soon. But it ain't gonna be the White House. It won't even be Mar-a-Lago; they'll probably vacate or bulldoze the damn place in the end. Hell to the no, the only house he's going to is a JAILHOUSE, hopefully one with the most filthy, maggot-infested cell reserved for him to rot in. And that's just to start, 'cuz if Hell truly exists, his jail sentence will be a hotel night's stay compared to what'll follow.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, as they say. And the new generation of young minds who will NO LONGER be banned from reading "woke" material will read about this in the history books, knowing that they must never again allow amoral assholes in ANY public or political office in America. EVER.

[matt_zimmer]

Our job is to run up the numbers.

[jasonderoga86]

Yep. And we will do just that.

[matt_zimmer]

And we'll do it with style.