DW_a_mom wrote:
goldfish21 wrote:
He might not end up in shackles in a cell, but there's no way he's skating. At minimum he's going to lose his fortune and his name is going to go down in the history books as the biggest loser & fraud in American business and politics to date.
I don't share your confidence. I don't think he's going down, not that he shouldn't, but I think he can draw it out long enough to live out the rest of his natural life, and maybe even have another shot as president. History, however, will record him accurately, I believe. And historians will enjoy dissecting how he duped so many, and out played the rest.
Meanwhile, we really have to stop giving the man oxygen. We're giving him life. He's more likely to go down if we shut up. No one's mind is going to change; the evidence won't turn his fans against him. It actually does the opposite.
I do not even think about a world where Trump is ignored because I am as confident that won’t happen as Goldfish is that he is going down. He is a master, the most skilled I have ever seen at getting people to react to him. Nobody has come close, not close to figuring out how not to react to him.
I agree I have serious doubts he is going down because he is almost as skilled if not as skilled at walking that metaphorical tightrope.
But by default something might stick. So what would be worse?. We are too far down the rabbit hole for a good result. I would guess short term would be worse if they get him, long term worse if he skates. A country after he skates for good would be insufferable. If you think the MAGA’s are cocky now you ain’t seen nothing. 24/7 bullying and crowing and there would be no comeback that would not be pathetic. The anti MAGA’s will either give up or double down on violence and wokeness. Not that all anti MAGA’s will become woke but almost all will view America as irredeemably bad as the wokes do. Arguing there are still good points, and that the ideals are still good might still be true, but it would be a pathetic endeavor.
DeSantis is the reason despite what I wrote above I am not confident in my prediction that in the long term Trump skating would be the greater evil.
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