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Each time Donald Trump has been indicted, his poll numbers went up — among Republican voters who closed ranks around him in response to what they decried as politically motivated “lawfare.” Now he enjoys a commanding lead for the GOP nomination.
Of course, it’s one thing to win the nomination of your party, an exercise that requires motivating the hardcore partisans who form the ideological base. To prevail in a general election, conventional wisdom says, you’ll need to appeal to moderates and swing voters. Democrats pivot right after their summer convention; Republicans don’t pivot left as much as they pull back their red meat appeals to the right.
That said, corporate media seems determined not to plumb the depths of cluelessness-driven embarrassment they displayed in 2016, when The New York Times told readers on election morning that Hillary Clinton had an 85% chance of winning. “Trump is not only in a historically strong position for a nonincumbent to win the Republican nomination, but he is in a better position to win the general election than at any point during the 2020 cycle and almost at any point during the 2016 cycle,” CNN reports.
Still, the question remains. Can the ultimate base-dependent candidate reach beyond his MAGA partisans as he seeks reelection?
Two factors suggest that he can.
One is a data point: A June 21 Quinnipiac poll found that 62% of voters believe that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Trump and that the federal charges against him for mishandling classified documents, for which he faces more than 400 years in prison, are politically motivated. Biden and the Democratic Party probably don’t even admit it to themselves — but that includes a lot of Democratic voters; 28% of Democrats think Trump’s legal troubles are more about politics than his wrongdoing.
And here’s a major warning sign: 65% of independents agree.
Some of those Democrats think Trump’s the victim of a witch hunt — and they love it. Anything to get rid of him works for them. An AP-NORC poll from April found that 57% of respondents thought Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges against Trump for falsifying business records were politically motivated; the same percent (not the same cohort) approved.
And yet — those independents. Neither red nor Blue No Matter Who, a good portion of them disapprove of the way Trump has been targeted. Even among the Democrats, some want Trump gone while not liking the way he’s been forced to play subpoena whack-a-mole. As the charges and hearings pile up, those feelings can only increase in number and intensity.
The other factor is a major component of America’s national character; we love us an underdog. We’ve subscribed to the underdog myth “ever since 13 scrappy colonies went up against the largest empire in the modern world. The beauty of America is everybody can think of themselves as an underdog in some way,” historian Ed Ayers told NPR in 2018.
Brian Balogh, another historian, added: “We have people like Donald Trump, who has styled himself as an underdog. I mean in fact, Donald Trump came from quite a wealthy background, but he’s somebody who feels no matter what kind of advantage he has in politics, the whole system is rigged against him. I don’t think you can understand Donald Trump unless you understand that the vast majority of people who voted for (Hillary) Clinton came from counties where the economy is contributing a disproportionate amount to the GDP, and those who voted for Trump came from counties where, where they live is underrepresented in America’s economy. They are literally underdogs.”
Swarming Trump with civil lawsuits, state and federal indictments has fed into Trump’s longstanding narrative that this heir to a multimillion-dollar real-estate empire who attended an Ivy League school and hobnobbed with starlets and presidents is actually a victim of a cabal of privileged co-conspirators, and not merely a sad-sack punching bag but a noble warrior fighting more for everyday people than himself. Joe and Jane Sixpack don’t stow military plans in their bathroom or pay hush money to porn stars or rip off aspiring college kids or try to overturn elections, yet they empathize more with the perpetrator of these deeds than the authority figures attempting to hold him to account. Truly, it’s a political miracle.
What these prosecutors don’t seem to know (and probably shouldn’t care) is that we, the people, hate their guts much more than we look down on the crass self-dealing and personal corruption of someone like Trump or, for that matter, Biden. Everyone has gotten a ticket or a tax bill they thought was unfair. Everyone has felt disrespected by a cop and unheard by a judge and screwed over by the government and, in general, the justice system. (My favorite relevant aphorism: We don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system.) Americans disapprove of the Supreme Court by a 2-to-1 margin, 41% think civil courts are unfair and 80% want substantial reform to the criminal justice system.
For some voters, the choice won’t come down to Trump and Biden. It’ll be Trump versus The System writ large. If I were Trump, even if I were sitting behind bars on election day — especially — I’d like my odds.
Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis.
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Its amazing that the Kabuki is playing out precisely the way I said it would.
Trump is being demonized to the point that even the idiot lefties life Rall feel as if he’s been done wrong.
Then, Trump wins and the Maga freaks clamor and scream with joy, until the shabos goy pulls the trigger on whitey for the Chabad jews.
It doesn’t matter which of these shabbos gets elected… jews win and whitey loses.
Understand that!
For those who have studied the collapse of the old Soviet Union, America is moving frighteningly into the same zone. Recall, the Soviet Union did not fall to a coup, or a civil war, or anything of that sort. Instead, all at once, every one simply disobeyed the central government. They ignored it. Back in the 1990s the Clinton administration was terrified the US was moving in the direction of the Soviet Union. Conveniently 9/11 let the government pass a bunch of new laws so that it could legally monitor everything. What they missed, is that in the old Soviet Union, they monitored everything. It did not matter. What happens when folks all at once simply ignore the law. We see that with homelessness in West Coast cities. We see that with illegal border crossings. We see that already with crime in Chicago. The 1% in America is like the old Communist Party in the old Soviet Union.
“No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury,.. primitive as can be.”
source: https://lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/gilligansislandlyrics.html
Which one are you referring to, Casino Trump, or Demented Biden?
Casino Trump is (as was his father), a CROOK. There are endless photos of Trump partying with Epstein, Maxwell, and even worse crooks, such as Bill (in a blue dress), and Killery Clinton.
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=be437cdbcbf504f0JmltdHM9MTY5MTE5MzYwMCZpZ3VpZD0xZmUxZWRlOS1lZWRkLTZlNzUtMzE4OC1mZThkZWY0ZDZmNTEmaW5zaWQ9NTUzOQ&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=1fe1ede9-eedd-6e75-3188-fe8def4d6f51&u=a1L2ltYWdlcy9zZWFyY2g_cT10cnVtcCAmIGVwc3RlaW4gcGhvdG9zJkZPUk09SVFGUkJBJmlkPURCQzQ2M0NEMDM3NzI4NDFCRjhERENDRkQ5QUI5M0VENjA1NjhBQ0Q&ntb=1
Americans are accustomed to a 2 twin Gang political culture pretense.
Below, are clear information/Links to just the tip of the Biden (Joe & Hunter) CORRUPTION. They have sold the honor and sovereignty of our Nation, for a few $$$$$.
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Trump would be more valuable as a political prisoner than as a leader.
It’s not just Trump getting chased. They are coming for all his enablers also. Hopefully they come for Kari Lake next.
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Pro-Trump lawyer charged in Michigan voting machine tampering case
Rebecca Falconer
8/3/2023
A Michigan pro-Trump attorney was charged in a state investigation into attempts to tamper with voting machines after the 2020 election, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Driving the news: Stefanie Lambert, who’s repeatedly questioned President Biden’s election win and was sanctioned in federal court in 2021 for filing a lawsuit seeking to overturn Michigan’s results, pleaded not guilty to four felony charges in court on Thursday afternoon, per AP.
Then-Republican candidate for Attorney General Matthew DePerno claps during former President Donald Trump’s remarks during a Save America rally on October 1, 2022 in Warren, Michigan.
Matthew DePerno, then-Republican candidate for Michigan attorney during a 2022 Trump rally in Warren, has also been charged in the state investigation. Photo: Emily Elconin/Getty Images
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https://www.axios.com/2023/08/04/michigan-voting-machine-investigation-pro-trump-lawyer-charged
Trump is Nelson Mandela: opposition frontrunner arrested and placed either in house arrest or in a federal prison. US government is detaining the leader of the largest opposition party because he is a “threat to the regime,” but his imprisonment and inevitable death in custody will only lend him martyr status and apotheosis, kicking the Trumpist movement into overdrive, giving USG the enemy within that they need in order to justify cracking down hard, cracking heads and initiating true purges. Whereas Mandela eventually achieved his goal of ending apartheid, Trump will, through death, achieve his goal of permanently locking the grip of Zion-occupied USG around the throat of would-be intransigents.
Recall Nelson Mandella died in prison. We don’t know who they ultimately released.
Does it really matter what the polls say? In the end, Trump will be kept from the Presidency by any means necessary, just like last time.
what about joe hiden’ and bunter?
https://www.yourdictionary.com/bunter
Here’s my take.
Sure, Trump is an asshole. But even thought he didn’t build a wall – even thought he didn’t even TRY to do what he promised – he did massively cut immigration. And for a short time, wages started going up and rents started going down. Oh, the horror!
The proxy sock-puppet Biden has opened the border to the limitless hordes of third-world breeders, in a massive attack on the American working class. Tent cities are springing up, and if this keep sup we are going to be seeing Bangladesh-style shanty towns before too long.
I’m voting for Trump, if only because he is not my enemy.
This is a sensible piece!
What happens when a state loses sovereignty in law, then pisses away all residual legitimacy and popular support or trust? And when, having lost sovereignty and legitimacy, the state crushes dominant candidates from both of the authorized parties running against the CIA impunity that caused state failure?
Both of the dominant candidates are surfing waves of international suasion: Russia enforcing absolute sanctified rule of law at gunpoint; the NAM and G-77 making common cause with Eurasia; countermeasures to US attacks in breach of UN Charter Article 41. Something like this happened in the 70s when CIA got busted for undeclared war of aggression in neutral Cambodia and the crime against humanity of torture. All kinds of domestic dissidents came out of the woodwork. Some were straight-arrows, others were opportunists. CIA got out of that by sending Don Gregg down to the Capitol to threaten martial law.
Now the opportunists are hanging back to see if they can safely pile on. If the public intellectuals of the notional left keep talking around the problem of CIA impunity, they will chicken out.
We all know why the stopped reporting returns until the early morning.
We all know the election was stolen. The Democrats are trying to make challenging their fraudulent elections into a crime, in a “conspiracy” to disenfranchise their hordes of niggers and cat ladies.
Nobody has to like Trump to understand what really happened. I didn’t vote for Trump, I don’t like Trump, Trump is a stooge of the kikes, but the Democrats have turned America into a one party state with rigged elections. The US is not a free country, it is not a democracy, it is not a Republic of Americans. The United States is a judeo-masonic dictatorship.
Can anyone remember the last time there was an election that wasn’t a choice between “the lesser of two evils”?
What is amazing is that the numbers are this low. Even Leftoids see the corruption in the occupied White House. Lets review some of the ludicrous manipulation of the system:
• Alvin Bragg’s case links state charges to federal ones to bypass the ‘statute of limitations’ in a manner obviously invalid under the law.
• Exculpatory evidence was not turned over.
• The most recent case requires proof that ‘Trump did not believe that 2020 election”. We know that it was rigged and Trump believes that.
• Lying about security camera tapes that were turned over.
The good news in the ultra-Left having setting these precedents — Trump’s 2nd term gets to respond in kind. Will Trump prosecute Not-The-President Biden and his son for their crimes? (1)
Trying someone who is mentally ill is probably not worth the effort. The Veggie-in-Chief is too feeble to send to federal prison and the attempt might create sympathy. Hunter is in huge trouble if he is not pardoned before Trump takes office for his 2nd term.
PEACE 😇
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(1) https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/01/evidence-of-biden-burisma-corruption-is-overwhelming/
Dead on, BeulahMan! That’s exactly what happened to us from 2017 to 2021, and that’s what’s going to keep happening until we wake up.
Maybe that’s exactly what the globalists want: now that it’s served its purpose (i.e., the purposes of the globalists), the US can go belly-up just like the USSR and they can continue to persecute us just as they have persecuted the Russian nation which was at the core of the USSR.
But the globalists lost in Russia. A conservative Russian-centric movement under Putin won. Putin restored the place of the Orthodox Church. Putin has detached Russia from much of the global economy. Putin does not borrow money or let western banks run the show. Putin manages the Russian economy to its strengths (which the US fights). I can visualize a US modeled after Putin’s Russia, but neither the GOP or Democrats would like it much.
True, CIA’s persecution of Trump is goosing his polls up and up. But that doesn’t mean he can win a fake US election.
We have seen how CIA attacks and destroys unauthorized candidates with squadrons of CIA ratfuckers.
kennedybeacon.substack.com/p/how-the-dnc-rigs-the-primaries
Republicans have had the equivalent CIA agent network for a long time. That’s where Rove came from. The plan is, Trump in jail gagged with SAMs, CIA agents of Mockingbird Media censoring any mention of evident electoral theft, and Kamala sporting a beer hat with a closetful of CIA videos showing comical fetish role-play buttsecks with her and Willie Brown, categorically denied by her chief of staff Marlowe.
Everything I know about Trump makes me wonder if the Dems aren’t just pulling a fast one on the people with this prosecution theatre. He’s the best asset the establishment has got right now.
He is a fraud, has been a fraud all his life, and it turns out he was easily controlled as a President, all the while playing a thorn in the establishment’s side. He’s not a thorn. He’s a prick. They coopted him, they handled him, they pulled all the necessary stops – and he ended up doing their bidding.
Sour the relationship with China? Done. Bully Iran? Done. Arm Ukraine to the teeth? Done. Move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Done. Cut taxes for the rich? Done. Maintain zero interest rate policy to keep the asset bubble going? Done. Increase the military spending back to Dubya-era levels? Done. Subsidize the Big Pharma to create the “vaccine” that poisoned untold numbers of people? Done. Pardon the war criminals from Blackwater? Done.
All done by Trump. And he was stupid enough to own it. The only reason they stole the elections away from him just because some of them, like Pelosi, didn’t like him personally, and because Biden really, really wanted to be a President before he kicks a bucket.
Trump is a champion of the people in words only. He’s a magnet for the crowd because he blurts out stuff people like to hear. But he did nothing for the people. Not even for those folks incarcerated for rallying behind him on the Jan 6. Everything he actually did do was for the establishment.
Now his whole comeback campaign revolves around “they stole my elections” and “they’re persecuting me”. That’s because he’s got no real program until they tell him what to do. But it might just be enough for him to get re-elected because people like martyrs. Even if those martyrs are a complete fabrication.