As the old saying goes...That was Then...This is Now.
For The Recod I am about a 70% Trump Fan (70% is about as good as it gets. That said Let’s not pretend Donald Trumps 2024 campaign did not take a Hit last night.
It goes without saying Whoever wins the nomination (Trump, DeSantis, Cruz, Whoever) WILL be Hitler to the Democrats/Corporate Media (but I repeat myself), But Trump Will energize to a greater degree than in 2020
From Power Line
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/11/it-could-have-been-worse.php
* Donald Trump. I thought the Democrats’ endless yammering about “our democracy” and “fascism” was incredibly stupid, born of desperation, and would be ignored by voters. I was partly right: those themes were stupid, and they were born of desperation. But it turned out that they were not ineffective. To cite just one example, a young woman I know posted a photo of herself at the polls on Instagram, with the text, “I’m voting against fascism.”
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An off-year election is normally a referendum on the president, which is why the out-party nearly always gains. When the Democrats tried to make this year’s election a referendum on Donald Trump, I thought they were crazy. Trump is not an office-holder, nor was he on the ballot. How could that possibly work? Well, it did work, and Trump, with his inimitable bad judgment, collaborated fully with the Democrats in putting himself front and center, with disastrous results.
The major exception to last night’s gloom was Florida, where Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio both won crushing victories. Why was that? At least part of the explanation is that Florida was one state where the Democrats couldn’t pretend Trump was on the ballot. Ron DeSantis was on the ballot.
Without Trump, there’s no reason to vote Republican anymore. This was my last rodeo with them.
I’ve reached the conclusion that perhaps the best way forward is to start infiltrating the Democratic Party, since we have, for all intents and purposes One-Party Rule anyway.