If Trump were less unstable, or if he were less obsessed with dominating the GOP...

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. My hope (and belief) is that Trump mobilized the crazies and brown shirts prematurely

His blatant appeal to them drove them out of the shadows and into the bright light of day. And he continues to incite them toward even greater extremes. To use a current metaphor, Trump may actually trigger off strong antibodies to autocracy in our body politic before his infection can weaken it sufficiently for a more able autocrat to take us down. Desantis, or whoever, has now lost the element of surprise. Trump is forcing that ilk to display their true loyalties in a light which may excite the core Trumpster base but alienates increasing numbers outside of it. Suddenly it's High Noon and cockroaches can no longer lay seeds for sedition in the shadows.