https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/07/donald-trump-is-a-political-cockroach/

By Harrison Kass

Political observers are soberly accepting that the GOP will nominate Donald Trump as their p**********l candidate for the third consecutive time.

For a minute there, it looked like Trump was out.

He was under investigation.

He was embroiled in scandal.

His picks for the 2022 midterm were almost universally trounced.

Ron DeSantis, who dominated the Florida gubernatorial e******n, surged ahead of Trump in the polls.

In short, Trump looked like toast. I certainly thought a post-Trump era was a near-term possibility.

Wrong. Trump, apparently, is the political incarnation of a cockroach. He will not die. He is Rasputin. And many of the pundits who predicted his demise are now accepting that they called it wrong. And asking how this happened.

“Donald Trump is the front-runner, by far, for the Republican nomination for president in 2024,” Gary Abernathy writes in The Washington Post. “How can that possibly be?”

Abernathy explains his thinking – and his befuddlement.

“When [Trump] refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 e******n, incited an attack on the Capitol and skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration, I moved on. And I confidently predicted that most Republicans would eventually do the same. More than two years later, as the 2024 campaign gears up in earnest, it’s clear that such assumptions were naïve. Even after a federal indictment regarding his hoarding of classified material, polls show Trump’s dominance in the GOP field is unabated.”

Abernathy, to his credit, doesn’t dismiss the appeal of Trump on a wide swath of the e*****rate as absurd or unreasonable. He doesn’t cite r****m or f*****m or xenophobia or low-IQs as has become so commonplace.

“Clearly, I underestimate the depth of the emotional bond between Trump and his v**ers. What I continue to hear in personal conversations are passionate testimonials that the former president is the only candidate to be trusted, the exclusive remedy to our corrupt system, the one meaningful defend of God, f**g and country. Debate is futile,” Abernathy wrote.

Indeed. Trump is, and has been, a populist’s candidate. He speaks to, and professes to speak for, the marginalized majority. I don’t buy it personally. I think Trump is a carnival barking huckster. But whether I buy it or not isn’t what matters. Millions of people have bought it, convinced that Trump speaks for their best interest. And I have to say, those who have accepted Trump – they’re half-way there.

They have correctly assessed that “The Establishment” is not beholden to the common American. Mainstream politicians are not primarily concerned with the wellbeing of the average v**er.

So, Trump v**ers are correct in that a v**e for Clinton or Bush or Biden would be a v**e to sustain the status quo in which the middle class has been gradually deprived of financial power, cultural power, and basic respect. And while all that may true, the shortcoming of Trump v**ers is that they believe Trump will deliver them from marginalization, that he may restore to them financial power, cultural power, and basic respect.

He won’t. He’s a self-interested blowhard who may have less in common with the everyday American than Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush. Trump is not the populist answer to a r****d status quo. Trump is a false prophet and a corrupt i***t.

But he’s convinced the GOP base otherwise, and he’s here to stay.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/07/donald-trump-is-a-political-cockroach/

By Harrison Kass

Political observers are soberly accepting that the GOP will nominate Donald Trump as their p**********l candidate for the third consecutive time.

For a minute there, it looked like Trump was out.

He was under investigation.

He was embroiled in scandal.

His picks for the 2022 midterm were almost universally trounced.

Ron DeSantis, who dominated the Florida gubernatorial e******n, surged ahead of Trump in the polls.

In short, Trump looked like toast. I certainly thought a post-Trump era was a near-term possibility.

Wrong. Trump, apparently, is the political incarnation of a cockroach. He will not die. He is Rasputin. And many of the pundits who predicted his demise are now accepting that they called it wrong. And asking how this happened.

“Donald Trump is the front-runner, by far, for the Republican nomination for president in 2024,” Gary Abernathy writes in The Washington Post. “How can that possibly be?”

Abernathy explains his thinking – and his befuddlement.

“When [Trump] refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 e******n, incited an attack on the Capitol and skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration, I moved on. And I confidently predicted that most Republicans would eventually do the same. More than two years later, as the 2024 campaign gears up in earnest, it’s clear that such assumptions were naïve. Even after a federal indictment regarding his hoarding of classified material, polls show Trump’s dominance in the GOP field is unabated.”

Abernathy, to his credit, doesn’t dismiss the appeal of Trump on a wide swath of the e*****rate as absurd or unreasonable. He doesn’t cite r****m or f*****m or xenophobia or low-IQs as has become so commonplace.

“Clearly, I underestimate the depth of the emotional bond between Trump and his v**ers. What I continue to hear in personal conversations are passionate testimonials that the former president is the only candidate to be trusted, the exclusive remedy to our corrupt system, the one meaningful defend of God, f**g and country. Debate is futile,” Abernathy wrote.

Indeed. Trump is, and has been, a populist’s candidate. He speaks to, and professes to speak for, the marginalized majority. I don’t buy it personally. I think Trump is a carnival barking huckster. But whether I buy it or not isn’t what matters. Millions of people have bought it, convinced that Trump speaks for their best interest. And I have to say, those who have accepted Trump – they’re half-way there.

They have correctly assessed that “The Establishment” is not beholden to the common American. Mainstream politicians are not primarily concerned with the wellbeing of the average v**er.

So, Trump v**ers are correct in that a v**e for Clinton or Bush or Biden would be a v**e to sustain the status quo in which the middle class has been gradually deprived of financial power, cultural power, and basic respect. And while all that may true, the shortcoming of Trump v**ers is that they believe Trump will deliver them from marginalization, that he may restore to them financial power, cultural power, and basic respect.

He won’t. He’s a self-interested blowhard who may have less in common with the everyday American than Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush. Trump is not the populist answer to a r****d status quo. Trump is a false prophet and a corrupt i***t.

But he’s convinced the GOP base otherwise, and he’s here to stay.

Every citizen in America has the Constitutional right to contest an e******n. The left, however, is taking that right away from President Trump (and the American people) by charging him with very flimsy, made-iup “crimes” in order to make him stop pursuing that right.

Trump could be sitting on his yacht, or otherwise enjoying his Summer, his beautiful wife and his family. But he is willing to be attacked, slandered and persecuted for wanting to help put this country back into the great country it once was before this corrupt, greedy power-hungry administration began running us into the ground.

Global elitists (not the American people) put a sick old man into the White House who can’t find his way off a stage and whose main concern is what flavor ice cream to get, to represent the United States of America. This country has become the laughing stock of the world now - and that is NO accident…it is by design - the beginning of the end of the of our American Republic. They want the rest of the world to get used to our presidents (note the plural) being disrespected by the American people as a way to demonstrate that we are no longer the world leader we used to be.

Trump v**ers believe Trump will ”deliver them from marginalization, that he may restore to them financial power, cultural power, and basic respect.” as your article states. We believe that because we’ve already seen him accomplish those things - and so much more (!!) - for us and our country when he was our president.

We want that back, but are being denied that because the left is scared 💩-less of what Trump will expose about them and their corruptions.

You can post 100 articles against him, but that will NOT erase from our minds what he did to make this country a well-run machine for us. We remember how satisfied we were with how he was running it! And we aren’t forgetting that as you try to erase it with this attempt at crushing Biden’s political opponent.

When (not if) the Democrats c***t again (which they already are doing) at least it will be much clearer now that we’ve seen how they do it.

We won’t be fooled again.

Every citizen in America has the Constitutional right to contest an e******n. The left, however, is taking that right away from President Trump (and the American people) by charging him with very flimsy, made-iup “crimes” in order to make him stop pursuing that right.

Trump could be sitting on his yacht, or otherwise enjoying his Summer, his beautiful wife and his family. But he is willing to be attacked, slandered and persecuted for wanting to help put this country back into the great country it once was before this corrupt, greedy power-hungry administration began running us into the ground.

Global elitists (not the American people) put a sick old man into the White House who can’t find his way off a stage and whose main concern is what flavor ice cream to get, to represent the United States of America. This country has become the laughing stock of the world now - and that is NO accident…it is by design - the beginning of the end of the of our American Republic. They want the rest of the world to get used to our presidents (note the plural) being disrespected by the American people as a way to demonstrate that we are no longer the world leader we used to be.

Trump v**ers believe Trump will ”deliver them from marginalization, that he may restore to them financial power, cultural power, and basic respect.” as your article states. We believe that because we’ve already seen him accomplish those things - and so much more (!!) - for us and our country when he was our president.

We want that back, but are being denied that because the left is scared 💩-less of what Trump will expose about them and their corruptions.

You can post 100 articles against him, but that will NOT erase from our minds what he did to make this country a well-run machine for us. We remember how satisfied we were with how he was running it! And we aren’t forgetting that as you try to erase it with this attempt at crushing Biden’s political opponent.

When (not if) the Democrats c***t again (which they already are doing) at least it will be much clearer now that we’ve seen how they do it.

We won’t be fooled again.