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

For sure.

Ron's strategy from day 1 has to beat Trump from the right of the party. He has hammered him non stop on covid restrictions, failure to build the ball and him not showing up to the debates. The problem for him is because he is doing it on conservative platforms its not been picked up a lot of others.

The reason for the lack of success is the party simply prefer Trump over RDS. Trump has something like 70 or so percent favorability with the party base while RDS has around 60%, the party like RDS but they idolize Trump for better or most likely worse.

Just as was predicted.

Wtf???

Quote I read elsewhere, emphasis mine:

"On Monday evening, the Supreme Court said it will “expedite consideration of the petition from Jack Smith” and “instruct team Trump to respond by 12/20,” according to CNN. "

Can someone confirm the quote from the USSC? It's worrying me - they should've been polite and referred to Jack Smith as "Mr. Smith" or "Prosecutor Smith." Not "Jack Smith."

At least, imho they should've as someone who has been around lawyers a lot.

The problem is that the right of the Republican party is more Greene and those kinds of people. It's shrieking conspiracy theory and paranoia. When DeSantis criticises Trump for things like not getting the wall fully built, the defence is automatic, almost: it's all because of the deep state. When you look at the 'purification' of the Republican party over the years since Trump has come to prominence, i.e. the ousting/resignation/retirement/marginalisation of all the sensible people in it, DeSantis finds himself almost looking like a centrist in the new spectrum of allowed Republican opinion.

Maybe DeSantis had hoped to put together a coalition of independent voters and moderate Republicans in order to oust Trump, but it just hasn't happened for him. In current polling, Trump not only leads the other candidates, but he leads them combined, and leads them combined x2. So, if there are all these disaffected Republicans out there, they must have become awfully disillusioned with politics because they're not supporting Trump's rivals, and aren't crazy about Joe Biden, either, given the latest polling, there.

Trump is the god-king of the Republican party, and essentially unassailable in terms of his popularity.

Essentially the GOP primary base are three groups, obviously the numbers can be debated etc.

30-45% -who are all in Trump,will sacrifice their first born to him, Trump, Haley etc have to write this bloc off which obviously means winning the primary is near impossible to start with.

30-40%-They like Trump but they are not as devoted to him, they like the cultural battles and some of his policies but probably roll their eyes at the more crazy stuff. This is the group RDS has tailored his policy towards mainly.

15-20% who don't want to vote Trump in the primary and are where the money is . RDS clearly has thought "if it come down to him and Trump then they have nowhere to go so fk them" but obviously Haley has came in and nailed this bloc which is a killer for him.

So you have the scenario where Haley has the 3rd group, but when it comes to the 2nd group she just is not that popular as Republican polling shows and when RDS drops out even if he were to endorse her many would simply vote Trump.

RDS has lost the third group and the second group haven't really broke for him despite his solid favorability numbers as ultimately they like RDS but many still prefer Trump.

RDS made the mistake of thinking the voters care about policy and consistency , and ultimately he has been sandwiched between the entertainment wing of the party who love Trump because he triggers the people they loath and the latter group who still think the party can ignore Trump and go back to the "good old days " of George Bush aka the Nevertrumpers.

Editorial on how Smith's maneuvering to bring in the USSC will go well for him, and not TFG.

Considering TFG's crack legal team has, pretty much, lost almost every case that actually got before a Judge, it's doubtful they'll do better before the USSC (imagine being the lawyer that might successfully argue on TFG's behalf.) That said, I can see if the USSC is indeed interested enough to want to hear arguments, they (team TFG) might then decide to pull back on their immunity nonsense, in order to insert more delay into the process. Smith, however, could still push through as this is his request of the Court.

By enacting very conservative policies in Florida which he reckoned would be something that would matter to them. Its clearly not worked out but their was no perfect strategy to beat what is ultimately the default incumbent. Christie is currently -50 favorability with the GOP while Haley who is getting fawning from the media despite not a penny been spent from Trump attacking her in most polls is still trailing RDS.

Haley is running a weird campaign, soaking up all the supposed NeverTrump love, but ultimately doing his biding by nuking the RDS campaign and not even trying to lay a glove on Trump which is understandable considering she asked his permission to enter the race.

Pretty wild, they had years to learn from the 2016 primary and all the errors that was made that allowed Trump to win were ignored.

The errors that led to Trump ran significantly deeper than those made in 2016. The Republican party allowing the Tea Party thing to snowball was a huge one. They thought it was a monster they could control. That reckoning was mightily wrong.

There is no strategy, full stop, to beat Trump at the moment. It will require a cultural shift in order to unseat him.

The idea of Haley asking Trump's permission to run would be a perfect summation of the party's complete supplication to Trump. She's basically running in the hope of being his VP pick. Would serve her right and the rest if he picked his son or something.

Another ruling against the rapist

JFC.