It is very difficult to embed posts from Truth Social to Word Press (Our publishing software). You can’t just cut and paste the post like you can from Twitter. So, let’s worry more about the article Trump apparently endorsed, and if you want to see the re-post, it is here. We will go back and look at the article that Trump found to be “solid” thinking.
It doesn’t come from some of the more thoughtful conservative sites. The article was published in American Greatness, and its point, obviously, is that if the Republicans don’t nominate Trump, then Trump should run third party to teach the Republicans a lesson. The author realizes that such a run would hand the White House to Biden or a successor, but he thinks it is worth it because they can’t allow the GOP to be all Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn-like. This is a new MAGA outrage.
Many on the Left don’t know that a handful of responsible GOP Senators have worked with Biden on critical legislation, like the infrastructure bill and the budget. They seem to have realized that fighting just to fight really isn’t working, and so some Republicans in the United States Senate have quietly kept the country running and avoiding a costly recession. People on the Right, especially the MAGAs, sure noticed.
Those folks that cooperated for the greater good need to go, according to the author, Dan Gelernter. God bless him. He has a few holes in his argument, but we love him for it.
But, despite the obvious differences, we’re heading for a 1912-repeat, in which the Republican Party ignores its own voters. The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again: He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump.
That leads us to the inevitable question: What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him? Do we knuckle under and vote for Ron DeSantis because he would be vastly better than any Democrat?
Point of order. Is there anything out there to indicate that the Republican party has enough centralized control to keep anyone from Republican voters? Republican voters nominated Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz, two candidates that leaders like McConnell, Daniels, and even Sean Hannity, would have preferred not to have. But, the voters decided.
Trump is the one keeping himself “off the ballot” (Sort of) right now by not campaigning or getting out and about. The author’s best hope is that 15 Republicans line up to run for president, allowing Trump to win with a plurality of votes in various states, just like last time. (Incidentally, IF the Republican party was strong enough to keep Trump away from his voters, they would’ve done it in 2016, when Lindsey Graham famously said that if they nominate him, Trump will destroy the GOP, and they’ll deserve it.) If Trump goes head to head with DeSantis and one other… say Chris Christie, he will likely lose. But if there are so many candidates that Trump can win Iowa with 15% to DeSantis’s 14%
If Donald Trump runs for the GOP nomination and doesn’t get it, or it doesn’t look good after the first three to four states, then perhaps he’ll get out. But that defeats the author’s point. Those Republican votes are real (we presume they don’t cheat themselves…), and that means that a majority of Republicans believe it’s time for Trump to go. Of course, facts never bothered the MAGAs before, and a conspiracy theory explains everything; we’ll hear that Trump is being “pushed down” even though there will likely be no proof of it.
Here’s the thing: It is precisely the expedient view of “well, this person isn’t my first choice, but he’s the best available option who can win” which has allowed the uniparty to take over and ruin the country. We’re letting the Republicans get away with offering us a false dichotomy: A fake non-choice among candidates who are pre-selected for us. The Democrats did this themselves in 2016 when they stole the primary from Bernie Sanders.
No one stole a primary from Sanders.
The other thing that this guy has to get over is that there is most certainly a difference between Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, or even Romney. There is a reason we don’t have a nationwide law ensuring easy access to the ballot box. There is a vast divide between the parties, an unhealthy divide. Yes, the left has gotten more liberal, at least socially. They’re nowhere near as far over the horizon with the new “America First” stuff that has the Republican party butting up against Putin.
But Trump is intrigued enough, even knowing that he’ll hand the election to the Dems, to run Third-party if the Republicans reject him? Well, then, the Republicans will get a little shot of their own medicine. Trump is more than happy to destroy – with violence – anything or anyone who rejects him. If the GOP lines up behind DeSantis, Trump will be looking to destroy something. It might as well be the Grand “Old” Party.
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‘thoughtful conservative ‘
Another example of an oxymoron, this time involving real morons.
The phrase “don’t threaten me with a good time” springs to mind. Because this promises to be the perfect palate cleanser for the last six years on its current trajectory.
A narcissist is loyal only to himself. That’s one fact you can take to the bank.
A open letter to Trump: Do us all a favor and please run as a third party candidate and take your hapless grievance and disgruntled followers with you. By you running as a third party candidate it will guarantee that the republicans will not see a majority in the house or senate for the foreseeable future if ever.
If trump wins, could he get a security clearance? How could he be president if he doesn’t have a security clearance?
I don’t think there is a requirement for a sitting president to hold a clearance, if there were then a simple background check of his finances like who owns his debt and of his many previous foreign entanglements not to mention the much publicized entanglements with organized crime in NY and NJ would have qualified him as an extreme security risk with no possible clearance.
Unfortunately I think it is assumed that if a person can raise to that level of office he must be of sound mind and sound moral character, we have found out because of Trump that is thinking that needs to be codified into law. The need for our elected officials to be able to pass a basic background check is on full display today with the election under fraudulent circumstances of one George Santos.
It’s actually a non-issue. If he somehow was elected president, he’ll sign the pardon on the podium, and he won’t have any issues to deal with.
I am one of the few lawyers who thinks that you can only grant “pardon” to someone else or vice versa, “Beg your pardon,” “Pardon me,” the only context in which “pardon” applies to oneself is in the idea of pardoning yourself in criminal law. And that results in everyday usage, “I pardoned myself for having a few too many beers” he says insincerely.
And I believed that long before Trump got into politics in an old case from Washington State circa 1900 or so (or earlier) that said the governor cannot pardon himself.
He’s already destroyed the GOP. He’s damn close to destroying democracy.
That’s fine with him. He, like all dictators, want power to the end.