I supported Trump from the escalator. I'm kinda done with the guy. Father of the Vaccines (that don't even work yet you lose your job if you don't get it) has been the best thing to help usher in the Great Reset. The World Economic Forum crowd need Trump. If he didn't exist they would need to invent him. He plays a pseudo foe and by the time he's done his next term you'll be eating bug burgers and worried about your social credit score and running to get your shot like livestock with your digital ID. His prescience has rushed this agenda.
I liked his foreign policy. I like hearing a US president telling world leaders he's not the President of the World just the USA and having a policy that lines up with that. Making genuine efforts to not just lower tensions but hasten a peace deal between the Koreas was a highlight.
The world needs to transition into a multi-polar order without US Supremacists in the Deep State blowing up the planet to stop it. Can't be stopped. Only question is how many die until we get there.
Trump has no message for 2024 (so far). His announcement was mostly filled with his long list of personal grievances and short on what his 2024 campaign will be about. He seems to think that he will just be able to say that things were great when he was in office and bad now that Biden is in office. But Trump's only real accomplishment was his tax plan. People are very aware that he did not deliver on manufacturing jobs and trade or immigration. It will be pretty easy for DeSantis or other challengers to attack Trump by pointing out that he came up short and they will do better.
DeSantis seems to be the heir apparent, but he reminds me of Phil Gramm. In 1996, Phil Gramm had tons of cash and lots of polling numbers showing him to be the presumptive nominee. But as soon as the debates started, his numbers crashed once the general public found out that he was a weird squinty eyed mushed mouthed southerner. DeSantis is a smart politician and has been very good at manipulating the media by jumping on the right wing cause of the day to get camera time on cable news networks and trending on socials. But on a broader national stage, DeSantis is going to come across as the whiny man baby that he really is.
The current dynamic in the Republican party base is still very anti-establishment. I think the 2024 race is still very fluid with the opportunity for another Trump-esque outsider to come in and take over the race. Trumps' base is willing to turn on him, but they are not looking for a Reagan era conservative. Youngkin, Pence, Haley, Scott, Abbott etc. aren't going to cut it. Tucker Carlson could easily sweep up Trump voters if he decided to run. However, I think Tucker is also a baby and just wants to go to cocktail parties and hang out at country clubs. And the RNC would probably try to take down Carlson for fear that his populism might horseshoe too much (Carlson regularly has on leftists like Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Mate, etc.). But there is definitely an appetite and opening for another media/celebrity figure to pick up where Trump left off.
Forget about where's the blow, the real question is where's the support? No big name republicans came to this announcement. Not even ivanka. No matt gaetz because there were people that didn't want him anywhere near their teenage daughters. Where's the support for the orangeman?
When Trump won the 2016 nomination, my thought was that the Republicans had lost control of their base. Much of what has transpired since has been moderate Republicans pretending that the extremists in the party are better allies than moderate Democrats. The middle still exists and is still probably the majority position.
Politics is broken and it's mostly going to fall on moderate Republicans to fix it. In the short term this will cost them power which is why they've resisted thus far.
Trump has lost enough of his luster that the moderate Republicans now see him as sufficiently unacceptable that he probably doesn't make it out of the primaries. It remains to be seen if whoever does can draw enough of the Trump base to be successful in the general elections.
I can't tell where moderate democrats are, because they usually just end up blending in quietly with the more vocal woke crowd.
But, while politics is broken, it's much more than that. It's two totally different ideological viewpoints. Natural Law (Rule of Law) vs Positive Law (Rule by Man).
The two cannot exist together.
You're wrong about that. They do co-exist. Natural law has long been part of jurisprudential systems, and has frequently underpinned man-made laws. It was part of the basis for holding the Nazis to account at Nuremberg, where they could not escape criminality by an argument of "just following orders". Where there is a distinction between them is in those states of pseudo-legalism, where laws are arbitrary and imposed, and ultimately unjust - as in many one-party states and autocracies.
That's a bit dramatic. The most recent election showed that Americans are largely moderates. Trump's M@GA candidates lost in resounding fashion and moderate Republicans flipped enough seats to regain the House. Both parties need to note this. The media loves to spin this as a massive division of diametrically opposed forces for ratings. In reality, most citizens want the same things: a strong economy, safe streets, good roads, decent schools, opportunity, plus equal rights and protections. People want pragmatic governance and are averse to forced societal change, dogmatic ideologies, and regression.
The only folks spoiling for a fight or secession are lunatics and fringe thinkers. If we convince the media to take away their megaphones by ignoring them, a lot of rancor and perceived division would disappear overnight.
That "lunatic fringe" is....20-30% of the country.
About 10% dissident right, about 10-20% strong woke.
Strong woke is completely incompatible with what moderate Americans want. If you want to avoid regression, you need to maximize the rate of adaptation to nature, which you do maximizing cooperation, which in turn you do by maximizing agency, responsibility, and reciprocity.
Everything the woke side (and dissident right, but they are largely too fked up to matter) wants minimizes agency/responsibility/reciprocity. They are outright, incompatible values and beliefs systems.
You just made those percentages up. What is "strong woke"? Defined how? By the Right? If Americans want moderation then that spells doom for Trump's Republicans.
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You just made those percentages up. What is "strong woke"? Defined how? By the Right? If Americans want moderation then that spells doom for Trump's Republicans.
This x 100
Anytime anyone use the word "woke," they're too obtuse to say what they really mean and don't know what the word means. It is one of the most overused and stupid sounding words currently being used.
Trump's candicacy is best thing happened to the democrats since the red trickle last week. It is great news for moderate democrats and if Trump actually does make it on to the ballot, which I doubt that he actually will due to his numerous crimes and the treason that he has committed against the people of the United States, it will be the best thing ever for the democrats. Additionally, Rafael Warnock should probably send a thank you card to Trump. This latest news is going to help him in the runoff vs hershel Walker.
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