MAGA's Moment of Weakness (The Bulwark)

[Nevilledog]

https://thebulwark.com/magas-moment-of-weakness/

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’”

—Donald Trump to rallygoers in Billings, Montana on May 25, 2016

It’s been one humiliation after another for Donald Trump and his die-hard supporters.

They lost at the ballot box. They were rejected by the courts. Their attempted coup was a dishonorable failure. Their insurrection turned into a deadly disaster.

The man himself is diminished. Losing his Twitter account made him look weak. Slinking out of Washington on inauguration morning made him look small.

Axios reports that Trump will claim the “presumptive 2024 frontrunner” title at Sunday’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Yet he’ll do so without Mike Pence, his once-devoted running mate, who declined the opportunity to show his support.

Whatever the future might bring, at this moment, the twice-impeached one-term president and his movement positively reek with the stench of defeat.

They seethe behind their brave faces, plotting revenge against high-ranking defectors. Not since the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland has Trump’s position within his own party been so precarious, so exposed.

The lack of reciprocity for a wave of recent betrayals is instructive.

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[Omnipresent]

1. Let him run again!

Trump is a glutton for his own punishment.

[demosincebirth]

2. You can't humiliate trump supporters - it goes over their head.