The reverberations continue from the bomb Donald Trump dropped last week on Truth Social, talking about Mitch McConnell’s “death wish” and openly slurring McConnell’s wife, Elaine “Coco Chow” Chao, in a racist manner.

It’s all been reduced to funny ha ha, Trump will be Trump. Yesterday, Rick Scott said, “the president (apparently believing Trump still is ‘the president’) loves nicknames.” Oh, well. And McConnell, for his own part, has not come forward to demand an apology from Trump. No, he’s taking Ted Cruz’ tack in this quarrel, and hiding after his wife has been insulted.

So much for the manly men of the GOP. And what is the larger picture? Joe Scarborough and a political scientist from Fordham University think Trump is out to take over the GOP for himself alone.

Trump is the one with the death wish for the GOP. His senate candidates are having a hard go at it. 2022 may be the Georgia runoffs on steroids. If that happens — and I hope to hell it does — then Trump may hand the Democrats the Senate on a silver platter. What’s that old saying of Sun Tzu, “never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” Absolutely. Please, Donald, continue. Never mind us, and never mind the GOP.

I think it is noteworthy what Morning Joe had to say about Trump “boiling down” support.

“He understands he can’t win, so what is he doing now? His rhetoric is becoming more violent, he’s embracing QAnon conspiracy theories, he’s actually boiling down his supporters, not doing what any politician who would want to win would be doing.

He’s boiling down support to find people that will support him for an overthrow of the federal government. That’s my belief, and oh, wait — that’s what he tried to do on Jan. 6, just a couple of years ago. Just look and see what he’s doing and ask yourself, why would he come out and try to get the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate killed? Why would he talk about a death wish in all caps? Why would he make a racist slur against a former member of his Cabinet who happens to be Mitch McConnell’s wife? Why would he embrace QAnon conspiracy theories? Why would he keep, again, getting more and more radical when he knows it will only drive down the support?”

“The clear answer, as he supports the election deniers, is he wants to succeed in 2024 in the way he failed in 2020 and he’s obviously ready to use violence to do that.”

Trump is not alone in that. His whack-a-mole followers are up for violence as well. CBS News:

More than 18 months after the rioting at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, an estimated 13 million U.S. adults, or 5% of the adult population, agree that force would be justified to restore former President Donald Trump to the White House and an estimated 15 million Americans believe force would be justified to prevent Trump from being prosecuted , should he be indicted for mishandling classified documents, according to a new study from the University of Chicago.

“We have not just a political threat to our democracy, we have a violent threat to our democracy,” Dr. Robert Pape, the director of the University of Chicago’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST) told “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan on Sept. 18. “Today, there are millions of individuals who don’t just think the election was stolen in 2020; they support violence to restore Donald Trump to the White House.”

The 13 million estimated in the early September survey represents a reduction since June 2021, when an estimated 23 million Americans had insurrectionist sentiment. CPOST researchers extrapolated data from over 3,000 nationally representative survey participants who responded to surveys in June and September of 2021, and April and September of 2022, to reach their conclusions in the study.

Pape and his research team found that the willingness to use violence to put Trump back in the White House was largely driven by unfounded and racist fears about a “Great Replacement” of White people by immigrants and about QAnon, a set of conspiracy theories involving sex trafficking by Democrats and liberal elites and corruption. According to the study, 61% of those who favored insurrection were fueled by fears of a Great Replacement, and 48% of those surveyed believed in QAnon.

The Great Replacement Theory is a central tenet of QAnon and right-wing thinking. It fuels white rage, white paranoia, and uneducated nuttiness in general. This is the pulse that Trump has always had his finger on and this is how he got to where he did.

Maybe Trump will try to burn it all down in 2024. I personally think he’ll succeed in burning himself to the ground way before then, and probably take a lot of the GOP with him.

We’re going to know a lot more in 36 days. Have you noticed you haven’t seen anymore PSAs by Trump encouraging people to vote?

 

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13 COMMENTS

  1. So about 5-6% of the adult population (not even registered voters or likely voters, merely so-called “adults”) think force would be justified to return Perfect Genius to office. And under the dominant “man bites dog” theory of journalism the views of this 5-6% will continue to get more coverage in the major media than the views of everybody else — because it sells more papers. Far more so, of course, when the super-crazies among them commit acts of violence. After all, they love the attention. So, not only do they have the right to yell “fire!” in a crowded theater (= free speech), but as we all know, free speech supports free enterprise (= media, guns). Meanwhile, the law grinds slow, but it grinds exceedingly fine. So we will ultimately wind up with encyclopedic knowledge of how everything was destroyed. But enforcement? Equal protection under the law? Hello?

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    • No. This guy found that he could make money (as many found out like Ursula) trashing Trump and Trump supporters. His figures are false to sell books. Do not believe anything he writes. This is the kind of literary work you get from Ursula after a long night of drinking and she wakes up late morning in a pool of her own dried vomit on the kitchen floor, again.

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      • I trash Trump and Trump supporters like you every chance i get and I don’t make a nickel from it. Why don’t you just crawl back under the rock you came from, because you don’t know what the f-k you’re talking about.

      • Have you ever read anything about trump way back in the 1970’s or the 1980’s ? Every single story about the man was one of cheating, lying, pompous strutting about, womanizing, more cheating, lying, racial hatred, then lying, pompous stupidity, losing money on & destroying CASINOS, more cheating, more lying – it’s been an ever ongoing string of doing what every decent parent tries to teach their child NOT to do – where have you been all trump’s life ????? He is the biggest CON of all time ! Just ask yourself if you would let trump take care of your beautiful, innocent 16yr old daughter overnight – that should make a dent in your brain – if not you are a lost soul!

    • Those folks have guns. They are itching to.use them. A good chink.of the military agree with them. And a,lot of exp military can train them. Sure, many MAGAts are either too old orvtpo.out of shape to walk a mile with a back pack, but you don’t have to be in great condition to.be a sniper or a bombmaker. 5% can do a lot of damage. They can murder Dem politicians from a distance. They can blow up federal buildings and college campuses. They can target judges and prosecutors who seldom have protection details. Small.groups can attack and hold federal land a la the Bundys.
      Hang on. It’s gonna be a bumpy night.

  2. Someone needs to confront Scott and verbally smack him upside the head with his total lack of anything approaching knowledge. Former guy is just that, former guy. If you want to be kind you can refer to him as “former president trump”. He is not “our president”, “the president” or anything other than former president.

    These cons display an ignorance that humiliates our nation in front of the entire world. Worse, the media give them airspace/white space to do this.

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    • Oh, red, red, red—insulting Ursula is so juvenile. Do you really think using crude insults and misinformation will change facts?

      Just go away.

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          • Try to keep up PJ. Yes, my warranted insults about Ursula and my verified truthful information which if you follow me I have references and not just lies like Ursula.

    • Wow, come back in a few months after you go back to Troll School and got a diploma. If you insist upon being a troll, at least be entertaining and not an illiterate asshole.

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