It is way more boring than this site (which is literally devoted to fearmongering about Trump) makes it out to be. Trump loves cash. He loves being in the spotlight. He keeps drumming up these "big announcements." Everybody "knows" that he's going to run in 2024. And maybe he will. But once he does that, he's subject to regulations. And he hates regulations, especially the ones that interfere with his ability to make money.
So he's doing an NFT grift. It's a spectacle. We all learned in 2016, or should have, that he's completely shameless and every scandal pumps up his base. Duh. This keeps him in the spotlight, pulling in cash without attracting the attention of the FEC. The details are irrelevant, except the salacious ones -- "no news is bad news."
Wow, I actually missed that. I think I'm proud of that fact? Or maybe glad that the mainstream left&right media that I consume is actually bored of him?
Though, I think what I said largely stands, with a slight modification: whether or not this is something the FEC can touch is something he can draw out in court until the money long gone.
Trump's base, as everyone knows but for some reason is unwilling to point out, is mainly white men and married white women. Clearly everyone is an individual and there's probably a single black woman somewhere who voted for Trump, but without those white voters he has absolutely no chance.
Why does that matter? Because they're completely disillusioned with him. The spectacle was well and good, but rather than focusing on the concerns of his base, like border security, immigration, creating blue collar jobs, and trade school scholarships just to name a few, his greatest achievements are Operation Warp Speed, which they don't like, and the usual tax cuts for the rich, which they don't care about. His main tangible policy that benefitted the white working class was not sending their sons off to die in a new pointless foreign war.
The upshot of all that is that you can rest assured that Trump hasn't got a prayer of winning reelection in 2024 and I'm near certain that his team knows it.
The Trump of today is not the Trump of 2016. I wouldn't say it's impossible, given the last decade, but the guy recently called for the repeal of the Constitution so he could be reinstated as President and it barely got a ping on the media's radar. In 2020 that would have triggered a riot.
I think Trump is done, but Trumpism itself isn't. The base is going to look for more competent leadership, maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz or one of Trump's kids.
> I think Trump is done, but Trumpism itself isn't. The base is going to look for more competent leadership, maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz or one of Trump's kids.
People here aren’t going to like to hear this, but think less Cruz and more Fuentes for the future of what you’re calling Trumpism, but if we’re going to be honest we should just call white identity politics.
I just finished a reread of Anathem and it’s left me disinclined towards “bullshytt.”
So he's doing an NFT grift. It's a spectacle. We all learned in 2016, or should have, that he's completely shameless and every scandal pumps up his base. Duh. This keeps him in the spotlight, pulling in cash without attracting the attention of the FEC. The details are irrelevant, except the salacious ones -- "no news is bad news."