What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

You'll have to go back further than just 20 years ago. 20 years ago many so called "Conservatives" were the Neo-Cons. Mockingly referred to, in places like Capitol Hill, as the "Nutzis". Little did anyone know what was to follow was Trump and his own brand of Nutzi, although I still think that Bush Jr. and his handlers were worse by a certain margin because of events that unfolded during his administration. That doesn't give Trump any excuses, though. and he and his lot are certainly more of an unpredictable, wild card, nature.

Noam Chomsky is correct in his assertion that there's really no such thing as a Conservative in American political circles any more. Republicans have lurched so far to the right that they've become extremist Statists. The Democrats, too, have leaned more and more to the right and both are conservative entities beholden to the business world's needs over that of the average citizen.

But while each party used to be a slightly different faction of the "Business Party", since the Regan era the Republicans have gradually morphed into what The American Enterprise Institute has called a "...radical insurgency that has abandoned any interest in parliamentary politics..."

In fact, Chomsky has said that current "conservative" politicking goes back as far as Nixon who understood that the Republican Party can't win elections on their own programs. Programs that will naturally empower the corporate sector over the ordinary man in the street. So they have to conjure up other issues to rally their support. So called "cultural issues", like the Southern Strategy of the late 60's that Nixon's politicos came up with or appealing to the anti-abortion positions of evangelical Christians and northern Catholics during the 70's. This continues to this day in the form of empty "anti-woke" tub thumping, whatever that happens to be at a given time and the "anti-woke" thing allows for an incredibly elastic array of "issues" that politicians can rile people up with.

As for the "Left Wing", such a thing also doesn't exist in the US. Being a "Liberal" (in the US meaning) is not the same thing as being on the left wing of political views. There are many US Liberals who wouldn't be able to form a genuine left wing political opinion even if their lives depended on it. Being a Liberal in the US isn't anywhere near to a European left winger. It's not even the same thing as being a Liberal in the UK.

Breaking out the old hits....

During opening statements, Taylor’s defense attorney, F. Montgomery Brown, said the case comes down to a “bias virus” due to bad blood between Jeremy Taylor, who is a Republican, and the Woodbury County Auditor and Election Commissioner Pat Gill. Gill is the only Democrat who holds a public office in Woodbury County. He was the one who alerted authorities about the alleged fraud.

Ah, but they are using the Trump 'if you don't count cases there isn't any covid' argument. Of course a Democrat was going to shop him. And anyway they were all Vietnamese votes, which would have been wasted anyway.

https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2023-11-21/woodbury-county-supervisors-wife-found-guilty-of-52-counts-of-voter-fraud

I read that name as C. Montgomery Burns

Another day, another deranged and vengeful word salad.

His supporters are loving it, of course. It's the Dark MAGA they always wanted.

If nothing else, it's been interesting to watch the former American conservative movement get distilled further and further into what it has been threatening to be ever since the election of Obama, the rise of the Tea Party and proliferation of insane disinformation on Facebook, notably starting with the birther conspiracy.

purposely Valuing my Assets at a 'tiny' Fraction

You'd think he'd shy away from that word

Does that post from Trump not breach the gag order? And naming the chief clerk again as a dog whistle for his supporters to give her more abuse.

Trump supporters here - 'they were saying "Boo-urns!" '