Posted on 02/02/2024 11:55:16 AM PST by nickcarraway
“Real Time” host Bill Maher offered caution ahead of the four criminal trials of former President Trump, predicting they will make him look like a “revolutionary leader” as the 2024 campaign unfolds. In an interview published Monday by Reason Magazine, Maher shared his pessimism about the upcoming election, which is increasingly looking like a rematch between Trump and President Biden.
“I think I’m where a lot of people are: I wish Biden would step aside,” Maher said. “Well, first, I wish Trump doesn’t win, but he totally could, and it’s looking more like he will. But a lot can change in a year. We haven’t had any of his trials—although if the January 6 commission and the media and everything else haven’t changed people’s minds about liking him, I think these trials are only going to make him look like a revolutionary leader.”
He continued, “All you have to say is, ‘The people who put me on trial were corrupt!’ And then your ignominious behavior becomes a badge of honor. So whether the trials are going to help or hurt him, it’s hard to say. I think it’ll be about a draw, and then it’ll really be a referendum on which side is crazier.”
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In the minds of the average American, Trump isn’t a revolutionary leader... he is a folk hero. He is visible sign of the frustration of the people.
That is what gnaws at bureaucrats and politicians; they have become accustomed to creating false celebrities... someone who’s music, art, or politics can be pushed on to the public.
It is a sort of social engineering.
Trump is different, his policies were crafted from listening to what the public wants. Trump’s popularity comes from the ground up so an attack on him seems, to the public, as a personal attack on each voter.
DC thinks that if they get rid of Trump everything they hate will disappear... it won’t.
Trump isn’t a revolutionary, he is something much more powerful, something the establishment hates... he has become a legend in same the spirit of other US folk heroes.
The public realizes it needs a protector against the corruption/oppression of the existing world order.
“Folks like Maher supposedly are smart, but they lack common sense.”
Agree they fail to note how bad things of the past get back on an agenda he’s pro left nothing good abut that.
I’m guessing that Biden will step aside and the Democrats will someone more competent but just as contemptible.
I have a friend who was at the Playboy Mansion during the time that Maher was there. The playmates called him “little Bill”.
“They increasingly see Trump as a badass with street cred”.
You nailed it. Thank you.
And it won't matter that she is an idiot. Everyone is already covering for Biden's dementia, she won't be that much worse.
“Biden is a power obsessed egomaniac.”
The assessment Friday during Dan Bongino Show. WMAL-FM.
Biden isn’t going to step down voluntarily.
That’s right.
The whole Democrat political model has always been to corner the market on the stupid half of the voting public. They have proven over and over again that they will believe anything.
Prominent NYT Columnist Tells Biden To Step Aside: ‘He Is Not Up For This’
https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1758689084074062303
Ezra Klein, a prominent liberal columnist for The New York Times, published an audio essay Friday making his case against President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, saying he should withdraw from the race and allow delegates to pick from a slate of candidates with a better shot at defeating Donald Trump in November.
“We had to wait till this year — till now, really — to see Biden even begin to show what he’d be like on the campaign trail. And what I think we’re seeing is that he is not up for this,” Klein said on his popular semi-weekly podcast, “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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