America First is not solely dependent on Trump. MAGA will go on.
It violates the FR Groupthink, but as I’ve posted before, there are positive aspects to the strategy of not having Trump return as president. If he stays in his present role of “kingmaker” - promoting and helping others who believe in the MAGA agenda to get elected, he has more leverage to change the direction of the country than he had as a Potus who was blocked at every turn by federal judges or members of his own or the opposition party.
Someone like DeSantis would be opposed just as much, but that person could not be harassed, sued, and accused of being nazi, white supremacist, racist, sexist, xenophobe, etc the way Trump is, simply because they are not named Donald Trump. The same MAGA plans and actions could have more appeal if they were presented by someone that didn’t evoke a visceral response in the opposition. The reason is beccause many people are more open minded about the key MAGA issues like trade, endless wars, securing the border, energy independence, and deregulation than they are about the man, Donald Trump, himself.
I’ve watched as many Trump rally speeches as anyone here and I admire and love Trump, but that doesn’t preclude me from seeing and assessing strategic alternatives. His value to the MAGA movement is incalculable, but he doesn’t have to be Potus for it to be applied. As “Special Advisor to the President”, Trump could have a free hand and influence but would not be subject to congressional approval, term limits, and could not be impeached.
MAGA will go on.
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If they arrest a billionaire with the best lawyers available (I’m aware many attorneys risk their careers to represent Trump or his colleagues) and manage to try, convict and incarcerate him, we are truly in a Civil War and MAGA has a martyr. Accusations do not equal conviction and this plot to tar him as an *insurrectionist* in front of the entire world with documentation that their *witnesses* have all lied while the leaders on the left are on tape calling for a fight in the streets and assassination of SCOTUS judges reeks of desperation.
Like Mandela. They need to look at their own ideologies’ history. Their tactics stink and are one of the reasons they are losing their base demographics.
Yeah keep telling yourself that. Maybe you can fool yourself.