I think he did a lot of good things as President.
I’ll always appreciate the good he accomplished. Plus, he had a unique ability – much to my everlasting joy – to mock and humiliate the know-it-all blowhards in the DC establishment and the media. He exposed them for what they really were – a bunch of whiney, self-righteous, over-educated hypocrites who openly despised ordinary working-class Americans.
He was the antithesis of political correctness. My anti-establishment hero. Those who opposed him called him a fascist. But in reality, they were the fascists working hand in hand with big corporations and tech monopolies, and violent mobs, to crush any dissent and opposition.
He angered a lot of people. Justifiably so, at times. And, let’s face it, he was exhausting; you never knew what ill-conceived tweet he sent out at 3 AM while in a fit of pique.
I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Still, I wasn’t completely surprised he didn’t get re-elected. He’d been under assault by the Feds, DC establishment types, and the media for four years.
I am surprised Biden got 80-some million votes because he is and always has been a weasel, a liar, and a moron, essentially on the wrong side of nearly every important issue in his less-than-stellar 40-plus-year career. Yet I suppose the hatred for Trump, coupled with America’s exhaustion with some of his antics, and the nonstop pounding against Trump by the media, helped Biden hit those numbers.
The loss was bad enough for Trump’s supporters but what he did next was worse. He became a sore loser who refused to accept the results. Just like Hillary. He blamed everybody else but himself for his loss. He insisted, as Hillary did, that the election was stolen.
It might very well have been rigged. Ballot box stuffing happened for sure. But it wasn’t stolen. No one took votes from Trump, except Trump.
He can’t get over it. To this day he hasn’t moved on. He’s still settling scores with those who didn’t support his attempts to overturn the results. It’s sad. It’s also causing damage.
He blamed the governor and secretary of state of Georgia for his loss there. Mostly because, after a few recounts affirmed the vote totals and his loss, they said there was no basis to overturn the results. In his anger, he encouraged Georgia Republicans not to vote in a runoff and a special election which in turn cost Republicans two Senate seats they should have won easily.
Which gave Democrats effective control of a 50-50 Senate, where VP Harris can break ties.
He’s still meddling. He’s still causing damage. Because of his hatred for Kemp, Republican Governor of Georgia, he engaged in unrelenting attacks on him during and even after the gubernatorial primaries. Kemp won in spite of Trump’s vitriol. But the damage was done: Trump’s opened the door to handing Kemp’s job to Democrat Stacey Abrams in 2022.
That would be a disaster.
In another special election to take on the full Senate term against Democrat Ralph Warnock, he helped his friend Herschel Walker overcome a better and more attractive Republican candidate to face off against Warnock. Walker has no political experience and may have won a Heisman at UGA, but he also has a history of mental illness, domestic abuse charges, and other baggage.
But he loves Trump. And supports Trump’s claim that the last election was stolen.
The Republican he beat in the primaries didn’t and would have had a better shot. Especially with moderates who would rather have hot pokers stuck in their eyes than vote for Trump.
The common denominator for Trump’s support clearly is not electability. It’s whether a candidate buys into Trump’s belief that he – not Biden – actually won the last Presidential election.
Nothing else matters to Trump. Nothing. Not past racist statements. Not sexual harassment charges. Not criminal investigations into sketchy business dealings. Not domestic abuse allegations. Not a history of saying nutty things about QAnon and other "conspiracies." Not documented mental health and addiction issues.
All the things that would otherwise disqualify someone in the eyes of normal everyday voters simply don’t matter to Trump when he endorses a candidate. Just that one thing.
He continues to rail against anybody who won’t follow him blindly. He disparages otherwise good Republican candidates just because they don’t pass his litmus test; candidates who could win seats from Democrats and help Republicans take back the House and Senate.
He’s had some success in a few races so far. But he’s also had some embarrassing losses by backing candidates that love him but were unelectable from the start.
So why does he keep going on the same path? Ego? Anger? Craving for attention? Whatever. He’s never going to overturn the 2020 election. Why he persists is unfathomable. He knows he can’t. Everyone knows he can’t. Even his supporters know he can’t.
Sadly, the memories of the good he accomplished as President are being eroded day by day as he keeps trying to relitigate something that happened almost two years ago.
He still puts on a great live show, nonetheless. His rallies still attract thousands. But most are there primarily to be entertained, and to continue to give a middle finger to the DC elites and the political establishment.
As he did, and still does. As they always did, too, when they voted for him.
But the bottom line remains unchanged: the 2020 election is over. He lost.
That ship has sailed. He should get on board and enjoy the ride. Yet there’s a rumor he might run again in 2024. Please don’t. His base may still love him. And because Democrats and Biden have done such a terrible job Republicans should run the table in 2022 and 2024.
The only thing that could stop Republicans now is Trump. That's why the only people seriously promoting the idea that he'll run again are the media and Democrats.
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