I appreciate your long and considerate reply to my snarky post. But you are overthinking the situation, something that I can often get caught up in myself. A sea change in attitudes in this country is taking place. President Trump and the Republican party need to stay out in front of it or it will be wasted.
I think when the crowd booed him when he started pushing the vaccines in August in Alabama I think the message started to sink in. People still love him, but he needs to keep a finger on the pulse of his supporters. They will turn on him if he goes off on a weird tangent.
As far as cheating in the next election... blue states like where my wife and I live will experience business as usual. But the majority of states are controlled by Republican legislatures and election irregularities are not going to fly in those states in 2022. And that is all that it is going to take to easily hand the Republicans majorities in the Senate and the House and also stall damage being done to our judiciary.
Because one of the New Mexican senators had a stroke last week...it is very possible that Biden will not be able to get a far-left replacement for Breyer in the Supreme Court before losing his majority in the Senate.
I totally agree. That's why I'm not completely on board of the massive but lonely Trump ship, which sails without any other ships in its fleet. Sure there's a couple of tugboats alongside, in Matt Gaetz and MTG, both of whom are probably my 2 favorite congresspeople, but he needs to build some more partners at higher levels. How that's best done is by having a platform, and a plan, beyond "you better support me or I will primary you." I've looked all over his website for a platform but all I see are links to donate.
People still love him, but he needs to keep a finger on the pulse of his supporters. They will turn on him if he goes off on a weird tangent.
I've been a huge supporter of Trump my whole life. I actually made a special trip to go to his Taj Mahal casino back when it was the largest casino in the world, and had one of the best times of my life to that date. I wanted him to run before 2016, and held my nose while voting for McCain and Romney. I believe that we need more actual businessmen involved in Washington, and thought he did fantastic his first 3 years, and agree with the sentiment that his accomplishments during that time are likely the greatest of any modern President. However I started to take the rose colored glasses off a little that fourth year, when he ceded to Pence and Fauci over the virus, and shut the whole country down when everyone I knew that had it was elderly yet still perfectly fine. But I still wore my MAGA hat everywhere, and even had a Trump flag cable-tied to the balcony of my house. Trump hasn't lost me, at all, but the fact I'm more lukewarm now means he's probably lost others.
But the majority of states are controlled by Republican legislatures and election irregularities are not going to fly in those states in 2022. And that is all that it is going to take to easily hand the Republicans majorities in the Senate and the House and also stall damage being done to our judiciary.
I sure hope so. We're in a catch-22 somewhat though, in that we need to weed out the hidden Rats, without dividing the party too much. Trump can help with that, but only if he aims most of his fire on Democrats, rather than his potential challengers 2 years from now, which don't really matter in the here and now.
Instead of making the stolen election of 2020 all about his own personal grievances, make it more about how others may have been cheated as well. John James in Michigan. The two Georgia Senators. Focus on what exactly is the evidence that it was stolen, instead of how angry he is at Pence about it. Most Republican voters believe he got cheated, we don't need to be reminded anymore. If they're like me, they just want to know what, if anything, is ever going to be done about it, other than fundraising for another (crooked?) election. Dominion seems to be wining their lawsuits, by the way, yet we never hear a word about it. Thanks again.