Charlie Sykes: Try to imagine Trump surviving in any other segment of our society

[BeyondGeography]

And yet…

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…No publicly traded company would consider naming Trump to an executive position, or even to a position on its board. None of his billionaire friends would trust him with their money. Even in our debased political culture, the cascade of rape allegations and indictments would force Trump’s resignation as a senator, governor, or legislator.

Trump would not be allowed to own an NFL, NBA, or MLB team, and no one would even think of giving him a management job at a local Burger King. It’s impossible to imagine him being given any position of authority at any school or university in the United States.

…At this point, the Senate would be unlikely to confirm Trump’s appointment to any other position of trust. Someone with Trump’s character would not be granted a security clearance at any level of government. We wouldn’t let the man babysit our children or even walk the dog. We would definitely not buy a used car from the guy. But we might give him back the nuclear codes and control over the military, the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, and the Department of Justice. Americans might make him, once again, the face of America.

…After the release of the Access Hollywood tape, the GOP decided that character did not, after all, matter. Seven years later, neither the indictments for paying hush money to a porn star nor the accusations of assault—and rape—are disqualifying for Republican voters. In the 2024 contest for the presidency, they hardly even register.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/trump-reelection-2024-assault-allegations/673957/

[C_U_L8R]

1. I see a cellblock

Don't know if he actually survives but it sure is entertaining.

[betsuni]

2. Tried to read this guy's book, "How the Right Lost Its Mind," but he's wrong about a lot of things.

Wrong here too.

[TheRealNorth]

3. TFG is just a failson of Fred Trump....

The only difference between TFG and most other failsons of the American Gentry is that TFG is a competent, if not gifted con artist.

[Submariner]

5. I forget how many times the nuns cautioned us

to never ever make fun of the handicapped, or we could be struck down by god with the same affliction.

I never thought someone would be so low as to make fun of someone in public like this turnip did. Yet he survives and thrives! He doesn't have an ounce of class.

[hibbing]

12. I really thought that would be the end

But they love their abelism as much as they love their racism.

Peace

[calimary]

13. That's an insult to turnips everywhere.

[Traildogbob]

6. He owns the GQP and right wing media

Who needs business? The cash is rolling in by the millions. His go fund me legal cash will never end from his fools. He will thrive until he finally dies, but his stink will never leave.

[onecaliberal]

7. No one who works for my employer would get away with what he said to access hollywood, let alone the

rest of it.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. If he answered to a Board of Directors they'd have called the men in white suits decades ago

[Trueblue Texan]

9. But we only apply such low standards to the those in the Republican Party. nt

[dchill]

10. Which we have already done multiple times.

Works for them. I guess.

[BeckyDem]

11. The disturbing part of how conservatives view politics today...it is only about

serving corporate power while distracting the disaffected from identifying their true enemy with boogey man ploys.

Trump was in that sense the perfect demagogue.