Donald Trump lives in a bubble of his own making and right now he’s his own worst enemy. He has made a few devastatingly bad choices in the past week. Yesterday, his choice to post 30-plus negative social media posts about E. Jean Carroll, while sitting in the “nosebleed seats” of the courtroom, backfired badly. He called attention to a situation, which might have flown under the radar. This is from Charlie Sykes newsletter.
But now, showing up to strut his hour upon the stage, Trump inevitably calls vastly more attention to the charges that he attacked and raped a woman in a dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s, and then defamed her by calling her a “whack job” and her story a “hoax.”
Given the state of the MAGAfied GOP, this may, indeed, help him in the upcoming primaries.
But it is harder to see how a renewed — and dramatically heightened focus — on the rapist president will win over any of the swing voters who will decide the 2024 election.
Trump seems certain that nothing matters and that he could shoot blah blah blah… But Axios notes: “While 65% of caucusgoers said they would still consider Trump fit for president if he were convicted of a crime, 31% said they would not.
That could be huge in the general election, in which a few thousand swing voters in a few swing states could see a Trump conviction — which isn’t inevitable — as a reason to sit out or vote for President Biden.
And that’s only a part of it. That stupid “God Made Trump” adaptation of Paul Harvey’s “God Made A Farmer” which was then co-opted by Casey DeSantis to “God Made A Fighter” was predicted to inspire a blistering parody and it did, bigly. You saw here yesterday the Lincoln Project piece, “God Made A Dictator,” and that video has gone viral. Here’s some commentary.
Trump plays to the base, which is going to be his downfall. The base alone cannot win him the general election. The base alone never did win him the 2016 election. Trump won in 2016 for a lot of reasons, but mainly because a comatose GOP went ahead and voted the party line. That didn’t happen in 2020. A lot of Republican voters woke up and realized that they’d made an awful mistake. Plus, a lot more Democrats came out and voted.
Since then Trump has done nothing to win over Independents or people he may have previously alienated. If anything, he’s alienated them even more. And his actions this week have been all the more alienating.
Trump is unteachable. That’s been his problem his entire life. He’s a one-trick pony. He simply can’t realize, as the vast majority of us do, that some things work better than others and to modify our behavior accordingly.
Fourteen percent of registered Republicans voted in the Iowa Caucus and half of them voted for somebody else. So Trump’s landslide is 8%, again according to Charlie Sykes’ newsletter. Trump is not on a glide path to victory, except in his head.
Nancy was strong enough to keep the extremist within the democrat party at bay, but so far we have seen weak house speakers within the republican house be bullied by extremist magas. …. Americans will not be held hostage by extremists in their party. … Trump fractured the Republican Party and the GOP allowed him to get away with it.
Even the “extremists” in the Democratic Party can still see the bigger picture and aren’t out to do whatever they want despite the cost or consequences. And an extremist on the left wants higher wages and more worker protections while an extremist on the right wants segregation and violence to force their opinion.
An ‘extremist’ on the left in America is mainstream slightly right of center in the rest of the developed world. Much to the loss of the American citizenry.
“Democratic” Party.
This morning joe guy seems to think former guy should campaign on the economy–whose? The one during drumpf’s w.h. tenure during which there was a net LOSS of jobs or the one President Biden is overseeing which has seen jobs increase by leaps and bounds? Quite frankly, I do think our economy news needs to be broadcast–loudly, with megaphones. It’s effing booming. Unemployment is so low workers, workers mind you, have BARGAINING POWER so they can obtain LIVING WAGES. But, yeah, let’s talk about drumpf’s abysmal economy numbers there joe. You bet. What an idiot.
You know something joe, why don’t YOU talk about the craporations that decided to keep prices elevated after supply chain issues are no longer a problem. Talk about that dumbass.
I’m sorry but do people really watch that idiot?
He and Mika are rich and privileged. He still defends that criminal Ronald Regan. Remember he was and still is a republican. Mika leads these ‘know your value’ seminars. As a child of rich, well connected parents, and now still rich…what the hell does she know about struggle? I stopped watching them a while back.
If you go back enough (probably before Trump ran or just around that time), Joe Alabama would bring up the fact how some folks in Central America were so happy! His kids were amazed how happy even with the poverty around them. These folks were not complaining like (“leftist” (?)) entitled Americans. Just so happy even with all their bad circumstances!!! Joe Alabama had to just spew his opinions on and on. Somehow he never quite got around to 1. Figuring out how same folks were leaving on those immigration caravans 2. Maga voicing despair was okay (but forgot to contrast them to the happy folks… wonder why?) . Yeah joe Alabamie and his wife… can just eff all the way since they have no shame.
he more than mika has irons in both fires since magamorphisis
set in to this country.
if Mika truly “knew her value” she would give “Joe” a blistering every time he interrupts her when she is speaking.
True. He talks over her all the time I watched.
The republicons are putting their efforts into the swing states and conspiring to steal those.
More spelling/usage errors. The correct term is “wack job”, as in “wacky”. “Whack” means to hit someone, or something, like you head, Dipshit.
Is that meant to be “your” head? Dipshit.
covid-19 was a virus wrapped in another virus called trumpism.
end of story…
Axios notes: “While 65% of caucusgoers said they would still consider Trump fit for president if he were convicted of a crime, 31% said they would not.”
And we’re talking about the very trumpiest of the trumplestilstskins. According to the Des Moines Register, “The number of caucus goers comprised 15% of Iowa’s roughly 752,200 registered Republicans.”
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2024/01/16/iowa-caucus-turnout-registered-republicans-15-percent-cold-weather-snow-donald-trump-expectations/72067396007/