Republican strategists are worried that if former President Trump doesn’t secure the GOP’s presidential nomination next year, or if he is kept off the ballot because of his mounting legal problems,…
  • Zombiepirate@lemm.ee
    34·
    1 year ago

    “For Republicans, the only hope is that when Trump is on the ballot in 2024 … he will turn out rural voters at a rate that overwhelms that phenomenon. It’s certainly possible,” the source said.

    Isn’t it funny that the only “hope” for Republicans is to re-install a vile, amoral, nepotistic, habitually-lying, tax-cheating, proudly-ignorant, racist, fascist, rapist con-man who tried to overthrow the government?

    Wait, not “funny,” the other one…

    Stupid.

    • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Those who support Trump are not a reflection of the values Americans have, but a darkness that America has surpressed since 1865.

      • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed and well said. The consistent failure to reject the historical culture that celebrated slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and decades of public and private racism have lead to an ingrained wrongheadedness in parts of American society. The reward for their ignorance and hatred is Trump.

    • davi@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      they’ve been ready for him; that’s why most republicans very publicly kiss his ass; all in the hopes that they don’t draw ire when he is inevitably made ineligible to run.

      • davi@lemm.ee
        27·
        1 year ago

        these engagements always go the same way, so here’s a copy/paste from somewhere else:

        since you’re clearly digging in your heels; i’m going to try to undercut your next arguments since they are always the same three from the deeply ignorant liberal crowd:

        • biden recently defended his decisions on all three plus multiple more shitty decisions; so it doesn’t matter how long ago he said it or made those laws.
        • biden refused to change his mind all the way up until his presidential campaign and has a solid history of changing his mind but only once it becomes politically convenient for him; so he didn’t “evolve” or get better, he just knows that trump is weaker on this topic and uses your ignorance about his past of truly horrific anti-lgbtq/black/poor history to get your vote.

        Additionally: no, dunking on gays for easy politically points in the past wasn’t popular, many politicians (eg bernie sanders) never did it.

        • his beliefs are the reason why he’s not bothering to improve anything, especially on the student loan debt. also: yes there are many things he can do even though congress is trying to block him; but he won’t do it no matter what. (google these too)
  • lordxakio@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Same thing that happened last time. Everyone knew Hilary was becoming president, and everybody was shocked when it wasn’t.

      • scottywh@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        My cognitive dissonance prevented me from realizing it would be trump somehow despite my not believing it would be Hill-dog…

        I’m sad and embarrassed to admit that I voted third party on that one.

        I also never imagined so far ahead to think how shitty trump would be if it actually went that way.

        “Fool me once… Can’t be fooled again”

  • shuzuko@midwest.socialEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    All that says to me is that we need to do our damnedest to keep him away from that nomination. I’ll be voting in the R primaries next spring, at a minimum.