Posted on 06/03/2022 10:03:39 PM PDT by blam
Trumpology
Former President Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm elections. Yet his record of endorsements is quite mixed. By the sheer numbers of winning primary candidates his stamp of approval is impressive, but in a few of the most important races, not so much.
The disaster that is the Biden Administration has been a godsend for Trump. Had President Joe Biden simply plagiarized the successful Trump agenda, there would have followed no border disaster, no energy crisis, no hyperinflation, and no disastrous flight from Afghanistan.
Had Biden followed through on his “unity” rhetoric, he could have lorded over Trump’s successful record as his own, while contrasting his Uncle-Joe ecumenicalism with supposed Trump’s polarization.
Of course, serious people knew from the start that was utterly impossible. A cognitively challenged Biden was a captive of ideologues. Thus, he was bound to pursue an extremist agenda that could only end as it now has — in disaster and record low polls.
Still, how ironic that the Biden catastrophe revived a Trump candidacy. Biden likely will cause the Democrats to lose Congress. His pick of a dismal Kamala Harris as vice president has likely ensured, for now, fewer viable Democratic presidential candidates in 2024.
So, will Trump run?
Some logic might dictate that Trump not try a second campaign. He would be 79. The recent record of doddering septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians — Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein — has warned Americans that one’s late 70s certainly are not, as the Baby Boomer generation may try to hype, the “new 50s.”
In addition, Trump’s old and new business ventures would take further and greater hits.
His family would again be targeted and unfairly maligned.
An otherwise nihilist progressive and media agenda would reawaken solely to destroy Trump — not his policies against which the Left has offered nothing of substance.
The Trump MAGA legacy is now largely institutionalized.
All Republican candidates will run on secure borders, energy independence, deregulation, Jacksonian foreign policy, a populist, middle-class, nationalism, and deterrence against China — albeit with much-needed new emphasis on destructive deficit spending.
Candidates like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, (R-Ark.,) are all close with or have worked for Trump and would, more or less, carry though the Trump agenda.
The Trump record itself between 2017 and 2021 would be assessed more positively, especially in comparison to what preceded and followed it, and with Trump in retirement.
On the other hand, in 2016 the Republican field was also hailed as a dream team. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was acclaimed as the hands-on pro who ran a purple state, battling successfully public-employee unions and left-wing monied special interests.
We know how that field ended.
Trump supporters would counter that a wiser Trump would hit the ground running. He would likely not recruit disloyal outliers or Republican Party apparatchiks.
Much less would he trust the ossified hierarchy of the FBI, CIA, DIA, CDC, NIH, or any of the other alphabetic, deep-state soups.
The Trump base would add that a non-Trump Trump candidate would never endure, much less brawl against, left-wing madness. They would claim that avoiding cul-de-sac spats while doubling down on the Trump agenda sounds nice — in the fashion that, theoretically, there could be sunshine without the sun.
In the end, none of the above considerations will likely matter.
Instead, the outcome of the midterms will tell a lot. A clear but not overwhelming Republican win will likely discourage Trump and empower his critics.
But a historic blowout will spur Trump. In the end, even if most Republicans would prefer he not run, they will likely vote for him over the hard-left alternative.
As for the Democratic landscape, it will not be the case that Joe Biden may choose to run. He will not run because the decision will not be his.
Even if he manages to last another two years in office, Democratic grandees know his cognitive faculties are eroding rapidly. They read polls and know what his non compos mentis optics have done to their party.
These same interests are just as terrified of Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Those two believe that the Biden disaster was not due to his embrace of hard socialism, but to his insufficient embrace of socialism.
Given the poverty of alternatives, all sorts of names will arise, from Mike Bloomberg-like billionaires and Michelle Obama to most of those dismal 2020 primary retreads.
In the end, a Republican nominee can win who convincingly promises a secure border, a pathway to a balanced budget, energy independence, a crackdown on crime, and a strong, nonpolitical military with a commitment to missile defense.
And the nominee would have to do all that neither with gratuitous insults nor playing by wishy-washy Marquess of Queensberry rules against those whose toxic agendas here and abroad have created the present disaster.
Hope so ...and he’s a doer of course he’ll run health willing.
He's what we need right NOW!
All other considerations aside, I strongly hope he runs. They stole that election and there is a score that very much needs to be settled.
For the Republic to survive, that stolen election needs to be shoved right back down their throats, or better yet - a truth suppository - and there is only one way to truly to do that: elect Trump President for the third time.
Even if he steps down a month into his term and passes the MAGA mantle to someone younger, he’s got to win in 2024 to settle a score - to render a verdict.
As is stands today, the fake news has a monopoly over the airwaves, and they are determined to speak on our behalf if we let them.
They say President Trump’s 2016 win was a fluke - Russian influenced.
They say his Presidency was a failure - marked by a double impeachment.
They say he got soundly beaten in 2020 and left office in disgrace.
They say he was never popular, and was beloved only by ignorant deplorables.
They say when he couldn’t win it fairly, he tried to stir an insurrection.
That is all a pack of lies, but those lies will be what is recorded in history - unless we put it to a vote in 2024 - the American people will be the judge and jury - and their verdict is the only thing that can set the record straight.
My 2 cents.
They are doing everything in their playbook do dismantle that legacy. EVERYTHING. Trump sees this and knows this. Those who support Trump see this and know this. No one but Trump can beat them back and MAGA. No one. So, YES, he will run.
All he has to do is beat the mail-in ballots and dominion voting machines. They will be in operation. Don’t think for a minute they won’t.
I agree fully.
Yup
Amen!
One unintended consequence in 2024 for the dems - they either get 4 more years of Donald Trump OR 8 years of Ron DeSantis. I just don’t think they can cheat enough to win the election in 2024.
As I see it, he has no choice. He either runs or watches the country he loves go up in flames. There’s no one else.
trump/musk revenge tour 2024...
1. Its not like the Left ever stopped trying to target Trump’s business interests. They have failed miserably by the way. He’s richer than ever.
2. Most MAGA supporters definitely want Trump to run so they can vote for him again.
3. Age might be a factor if you’re Biden or Pelosi or somebody who’s clearly lost a step or who is ready for a retirement home like Biden but Trump clearly hasn’t lost a step. He’s as sharp as ever.
4. Unlike last time, Trump will have a MAGA army at his back and a lot of the backstabbing RINO establishment which sought to hamper him last time will be gone - replaced by people Trump chose in this election and in the 2024 election. For example, the Turtle will be long gone by then just as Paul Ryan is already gone.
5. The 3 letter agencies and the military need to be cleaned out with a flamethrower. Corrupt Leftists in positions of leadership need to be fired by the thousands. We all see how biased and corrupt things have gotten in the DC Swamp. Can you imagine anybody who would be more motivated to give these people their walking papers than Trump after the way they treated him?
6. The sheer malicious joy of shoving 4 more years of Trump down the throats of Leftists is simply too much to pass up. They need to get 4 more years of Trump and they need to get it good and hard. They deserve every last bit of it.
Well said.
Trump on his bad days, is better than Biden on his best days. However, I have been listening to him on various shows and rallies and you can tell age is starting to be a factor (like us all), just small misses and yet he is still pretty high energy but he will not be getting younger.
He has already given us so much and for his own health I would prefere he be king maker, make MAGA a bigger movement and not run, maybe De Santis carry on w MAGA, after al he is a JAG trained attorney that knows how to give it back too.
But I think Trump will see the red wave in November and run,if for no other reason than vindication and if by chance there was no red wave (God forbid) he will not run. That’s what he is waiting on.
If we're not..too far gone...by then!
“A clear but not overwhelming Republican win will likely discourage Trump and empower his critics.”
“A clear but not overwhelming Republican win”, after the disaster of the Biden administration, would mean the country is finished, mentally, spiritually, literally, etc.
“But a historic blowout will spur Trump. In the end, even if most Republicans would prefer he not run, they will likely vote for him over the hard-left alternative.”
“even if most Republicans would prefer he not run’???
Talk about a stupid statement. Victor Davis Hansen’s earlier anti-Trumpism is showing. He must have never been convinced, after highlighting Trump’s achievements.
Yup.
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Well from accounts Trump’s family is against him running as his wife has said she she would not go back to Washington DC. Also time 2024 the US may be in a Great Depression and the economy a ash heap..I am not convinced he will plus his age and heath may become a issue.
Those lies will be recorded in SJW history, not true history. Yes, some books will put those lies in, but after the Demonicrat shellacking in Nov 2022, when people who embrace reality realize they are the majority, the times will be a-changing.
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