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Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?
American Greatness ^ | t Dec, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/08/2022 5:01:45 AM PST by MtnClimber

Given events since Trump’s departure, he should be in the driver’s seat. But he is not.

Team Trump has sometimes compared Donald Trump’s current quest for a nonsequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids.

Cleveland remains our only elected (1884) president to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later (1892).

Yet Trump seems determined instead to follow a different, and bullheaded, Teddy Roosevelt model.

Roosevelt left the presidency (1908), sat out four years, and then lost a reelection bid in 1912, split and alienated the Republican Party, and ensured the election of the progressive Woodrow Wilson.

Joe Biden’s first “corrective” two years have been an utter disaster.

Biden birthed hyperinflation. He destroyed a secure border and Trump’s energy self-sufficiency. Crime is now out of control. The United States was humiliated abroad in Afghanistan. Rising interest rates will soon spark a recession.

After promising to unite the country, Biden smeared half the voting population as “un-American” and “semi-fascist.”

In addition, almost all of Trump’s prior complaints, predictions, and assertions that the media dismissed as conspiratorial, or crackpot have proven eerily prescient.

Hunter Biden’s laptop was all too authentic.

The FBI was compromised and acted as an agent of the Democratic Party. Anthony Fauci proved a partisan.

Russian collusion was an utter hoax. It was engineered by Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and the FBI.

The Wuhan lab did likely birth the engineered COVID virus. That fact was covered up by the media and public health establishments.

Donald Trump did not take “nuclear codes” to Mar-a-Lago. He did not plan on hawking his presidential papers for profit.

Germany did weaken NATO. Berlin was foolish to mortgage its future with energy dependency on a hostile Vladimir Putin.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2024; desantis; nevertrumper; trump; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: faucetman

You just defined a “cult of personality” very well.


41 posted on 12/08/2022 6:27:00 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: bert

—> He did not fight his domestic enemies

Many are gone.

—> They are all still alive and well

Did you think he’d kill them?

—> His domestic enemies would not come to the table, much less make a deal. They killed him

He’s alive and well


42 posted on 12/08/2022 6:27:28 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Tell It Right
I believe Trump is communicating for 2024 much the same way he did in 2016.

It’s not 2016 anymore. Trump isn’t an outsider. He’s a defeated former president who’s been on an endless losing streak since 2018.

DeSanctimonious? Let’s see Trump on that debate stage standing next to the most popular governor in the country as he’s reminded that while one man was fighting to keep Florida open, the other man handed the country over to Dr. Fauci.

43 posted on 12/08/2022 6:36:09 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I look for things to change even farther towards things that
enhance fake elections. jmo.

example..... voting by computer, hand held device, etc.
Let’s see, Aunt Mae hasn’t voted so lets cast her ballot
for her. Uncle Joe be out of pocket for a few weeks lets
see if we can cast a ballot in his name.


44 posted on 12/08/2022 6:36:47 AM PST by deport
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To: sipow
Trump is the only one who can…

He didn’t do any of this the first time he was president.

Why should we believe he’ll do this the next time?

45 posted on 12/08/2022 6:42:36 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: dpetty121263

Unless 2020 gets fixed there is no 2024 just like there was no 2022. Jesus Christ couldn’t get elected on the Republican ticket now that the cheating is perfected and the cheaters face no punishment. This time around they rubbed our face in it.

Unless the military steps in like they are doing in Brazil you will be living in the Democrats workers paradise from now on.


46 posted on 12/08/2022 7:00:34 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: StAnDeliver

Ah yes a true believer, I would say you are a rare bird but you are not, many think as you but the many do not grasp the middle of the road types will not vote for Trump, nor will many Women nor the GenX and GenZ types as they have been programmed to run from Trump or the GOP..Brainwashing does work and well..The Midterms proved that out..Also if you are counting on the American voter to use common sense and logic you will be waiting a long time..


47 posted on 12/08/2022 7:07:10 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Correct..the fix has been in since 2020..yet no one can see it...or willing to do anything about it..


48 posted on 12/08/2022 7:08:42 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: central_va

VDH is becoming a TDS douchenozzle just like you.
***********************
And you’re becoming. Wait. I take that back. You ARE a knee pad wearing Trumpet.


49 posted on 12/08/2022 7:15:26 AM PST by sunny bonobo
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To: MtnClimber

Trump knows what he’s the media is confused because he doesn’t follow the good old boy suck up game to the media and they don’t like it.
He’s proved he’s the best person for the job Biden and his DOJ will do anything to keep the Biden crime family out of prison.

Media approved


50 posted on 12/08/2022 7:25:32 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: dpetty121263

I believe the fix is currently in process. A multi stage process. Much of it is happening behind the scenes or is being hidden by the press which are the Marxist handmaidens. I am hopeful its soon coming to a resolution.


51 posted on 12/08/2022 7:30:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: sipow

“No one else...”

That is loser talk. Who are you going to support beyond 24? Or what if the TrumpSwampJabs kills him before 24?

Also, Trump did absolutely nothing to drain the swamp when he was prez. In fact, he got politically naked and jumped into it, swimming with BigPharma and BigGovt.


52 posted on 12/08/2022 7:47:08 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: central_va

“Where else are you going to go?”

Great. Now we are down to the Bush-era strategy. Hold you nose and vote R.


53 posted on 12/08/2022 7:48:19 AM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: MtnClimber
Just for the record, think it is silly to say Trump couldn't be re-elected because he has been "damaged." What a ridiculous assertion. Any "damage" done by the left will work to his advantage with Trump voters and many independents.

That said, I don't expect another Trump presidency.

54 posted on 12/08/2022 7:56:25 AM PST by viewfromthefrontier
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To: gr8eman
He HIRED Wray and Barr! I think that alone will doom any rebid but I’ll vote for him!

Well, Mostly because McConnell told him they were the only ones who could be confirmed.

Trump seemed to think the government worked like a corporation, and people achieved high positions due to merit - so as long as he picked "experienced" people that the GOP leaders liked everything would be OK. He took a very long time to realize the GOP considered him and his movement to be a third party insurrection, and a bigger threat to the party's future than the Democrats.

55 posted on 12/08/2022 8:00:19 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Fact of the matter is 5 States 4 being Democrat States control the Presidental elections now. I personally do not see a resolution and can’t rely on the Courts as the Judicial branch is equally corrupt as the Executive and Legislative branches. What many seem to miss is the is not a battle between Right vs Left but a battle of Good vs Evil. Mankind is being overwhelmed with Evil and it blinds the to the truth.


56 posted on 12/08/2022 8:03:14 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: MtnClimber

Whatever VDH..... Trump is supposed to be in the White House now yet not one individual in authority with enough fortitude and integrity has stood up and challenged the totally bogus 2020 “results”.
Wonder why that is? Until the severe wrongs that were committed against the voting public are corrected and punishment meted out to all those responsible, positive forward movement in this country is impossible.


57 posted on 12/08/2022 8:05:19 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: BuddhaBrown

You will galdy vote for Trump. I have been waiting a long tine to tell RINOs “Where else are you going to go?”. How does it feel?


58 posted on 12/08/2022 8:50:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: frogjerk; dpetty121263

The McConnell’s, the McCainites, Billionaire Psychopaths and Thieves are funding a propaganda campaign to make people like you confused and demoralized.

Don’t be fooled, Trump’s support is at a fever pitch and growing.

One of many if you know where to look:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/poll-finds-increase-in-number-of-republicans-who-support-trump-over-gop


59 posted on 12/08/2022 9:01:21 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: MtnClimber
No one else is going come to the aid of the January 6th patriots who have been held as political criminals. No one else is going to dismantle the FBI. No one else is going to drain the swamp.

Then the Republican Party has failed. Badly. No one on the bench to pick up the mantle. That's sad, indeed.

I'm an Independent, so I won't have any input into who (or what) either the Republican or Democratic party put forth as candidate for US President. What I will do is assess both candidates, based on my personal sieve of excellence:

Given the hyperbole here and in the web sites across the aisle, my dream has a very, very small chance of happening.
60 posted on 12/08/2022 9:08:24 AM PST by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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