It’s a little awe-inspiring to see how Trump vanquished his opposition in the Republican primary. One might think that he had lost his credibility with his meekly-conservative presidency and his total abandonment of the J6 prisoners.\u00a0 But the voters have gone for him in droves in the primaries, and here we are.<\/p>\n
One theory, and it convinces me, is that the Republicans are angry over the lawfare being waged against Trump, so they’re supporting him in reaction.\u00a0 If true, it doesn’t speak well of the MAGA voters.\u00a0 But when has anyone spoken well of them?<\/p>\n
DeSantis’s positions were at least<\/em> as good as Trump’s (from a MAGA perspective), but he could gain no momentum.\u00a0 Trump generates enthusiasm.\u00a0 It was when I saw the rallies in 2016 that I decided that he could very well beat Hillary, despite her 98% favorable rating in the polls.\u00a0 I said to myself and a couple of friends, “They’re not telling us the truth.” But as I wrote earlier, Trump squeaked to a victory by carrying some blue-collar districts that normally went Democrat.\u00a0 I’d say he captured their imagination.<\/p>\n Trump wins through gasbaggery.\u00a0 Someone in the New York scene said back in 2016, paraphrasing an old piece of sales advice, that Trump would sell the sizzle when he didn’t even have any steak!\u00a0 He hammered his “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it” at every single rally he he held.\u00a0 Ted Cruz warned us that he didn’t mean it and wasn’t going to do it. [Cruz speaks generally on Trump’s pathological lying here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n Those who remember the 2016 campaign can listen to Trump give a speech now and hear the same old gasbaggery, one promise after another about things he could have done the first time.\u00a0 And, for what it’s worth, we hear the same enthusiastic responses from the audience, whose shortness of memory is a thing to behold.\u00a0 Still, it isn’t the ten thousand in the audience who will decide which way the election goes. A huge rally represents only a tiny percentage of the voters.<\/p>\n The Dims seem intent, kamikaze-like, to ride the Biden-Harris ticket all the way down.\u00a0 That’s got to help Trump.\u00a0 Now RFK, Jr. is in the race with a running mate who offers everything Biden-Harris can’t, so he’s bound to hurt Biden, which will help Trump.<\/p>\n But I think, personally, that Trump can’t generate the former enthusiasm again.\u00a0 Multitudes of his first voters who were elderly are now dead, and there’s little indication that he’s picked up many of the new ones who have reached voting age.\u00a0 Another big chunk of his former voters are now singing “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” He barely had enough in 2016; he doesn’t have as many now.<\/p>\n The 2020 election was rigged — not in the\u00a02,000 Mules<\/em> way, but through collusion between the mass media and social media to violate free speech standards and to lie about it the whole time, which qualifies\u00a0de facto<\/em> as election interference.\u00a0 They can do it again, and I expect that they will.<\/p>\n These things combined give me little hope that Trump can overthrow the Dims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s a little awe-inspiring to see how Trump vanquished his opposition in the Republican primary. One might think that he had lost his credibility with his meekly-conservative presidency and his total abandonment of the J6 prisoners.\u00a0 But the voters have gone for him in droves in the primaries, and here we are. 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