Donald Trump the Megathread part II - threadbans and mod warnings in OP

I’m finding it hard to believe that Americans, OK, Republicans in particular, are accepting Trumps exact same strategy for the 3rd time; that is, “rant” for hours on end about how bad things are, name call, throw dirt, and pretty much nothing else.

The formula worked the first time because it was novel, new and indeed outrageous - 3rd time around and it’s growing very stale - it’s hard to keep anger up for so long- I think even Trump is starting to parody himself- I think he’s even bored of it and has run out of new things to say- it’s like the Trumps “greatest hits” tour of insults.

Im hoping that the anti-Trump republicans hit out more and let their voices be heard - if I had been a card carrying republican for many years, I’d be very embarrassed and ashamed with what I’m seen happen to my party. Hopefully criticism of Trump from inside his own party will grow stronger -but it really feels like the party have resigned themselves to this sh1t show - lesson it’s taught me is democracy is a very fragile thing and it doesn’t take much to ruin it.

Exactly this. The GOP has devolved into the MAGA "Let's crown Trump as King of America" cult of personality….with accociated "also-ran" conservative politicians who don't really know what to do with themselves anymore. The GOP no longer has a "leadership", they only have Trump and the nonsense that orbits him. When Trump is gone, be it politically or when he spins off this moral coil, the remaining GOP will be a disintergrating basketcase which will more likely go further into facism. They'll either collapse completely, or become too extreme to win enough votes in future.

That in itself is great for the defense of democratic freedoms, since the GOP is essentially decoming the Nazi Party. I don't think anyone would ever agrue to keep the NSDAP on the voting cards post-WWII to preserve choice, but there should be choice. There should be a genuine opposition to the ruling party in government. So if the GOP are a lost cause, I would hope that an altertiave political party will eventually fill the void.

The Democrats are by far the better choice in this coming election, but no party should ever find itself heading some kind of single-party state…even in the extraordinary situation where the only other opposition party chooses to destroy itself.

Might go to show the Americans that multi-party democracy isn't nessisarily a bad thing. It's often said that it's a "Two-Party" system in the US, but that's only out of habit. The US has many more political parties, and it might be time for a couple of them to look at taking over the GOP's place as the main right-wing party

Pretty much.

The current state of the GOP is…

Unless Donnie for some reason counts himself out (or dies), he’s going to stick around to be the 2028 candidate too. That’s assuming of course that something doesn’t happen in those next 4 years that will somehow prevent him from running.

Much like actually being in the Oval Office, I think Donnie senses that being a potential future President has given him a special kind of protection from his legal and financial woes. He should be bankrupt right now and possibly facing jail time for his hush money conviction. But the courts are being soft on him….possibly because they don’t want the piss off the most vindictive man to ever sit at the Resolute Desk on the eve of him being crowned God-King of America. Otherwise Citizen Trump would be facing several head injuries from The Book being repeatedly thrown at him.

He may feel that after a potential 2024 loss, that he’ll want to be the presumptive 2028 nominee, so that he’d get a repeat of the past 4 years. It won’t work of course, but he might believe it will.

Also MTG & Bobert are just side-Muppets in this Sesame-Street of block-headed right-wing extremism. Without Donnie, no one is going to give a damn about these two. Without Donnie, the environment that allowed their special brand of stupid become electable, wouldn’t even be there.

Things going well in Trump ville....

Want to know why people are afraid Trump would try to end democracy in the USA?

It's because he already tried to do it the once.

Entrusting him with it again would be like entrusting a tenner to a drug addict.