Trump and Death by 1000 Indictments
If you can't beat him at the polls, beat him in court
If you’re like me, you’ve lost track of the number of charges against former President Donald Trump. He’s facing at least 78 criminal charges stemming from three indictments: the Stormy Daniels case, the classified documents one, and now the January 6th riots/”insurrection.”
Readers of Bracing Views know I’m not a Trump supporter. In fact, in March of 2016, I wrote an article stating unequivocally that Trump had disqualified himself from running as president (he’d stated troops should follow his orders even if those orders were unconstitutional). That article was the most popular one I’ve ever written in terms of “hits,” but of course Trump prevailed as many Americans concluded that Hillary Clinton would be even worse of a president than a narcissistic and clueless con man.
Democrats seem to think the way to “kill” Trump is death by a thousand paper cuts inflicted by all these legal charges and indictments. I don’t think so. I think most Americans know what Trump is. They know he’s a rogue and a scoundrel. They know he paid off Stormy Daniels in a dodgy, probably illegal, way; they know he shouldn’t have had all those classified documents around; they know he’s a sore loser who lashed out in petulant and dangerous ways on January 6th; but they also know Democrats aren’t offering much of an alternative except four more years of Biden/Harris. Their motto might be: More of the same, only more!
The way to beat Trump is to offer real changes of substance that will help Americans who are struggling across our country. But we’re not going to get that from Biden/Harris. Just look back to all those campaign promises, vintage 2020, that haven’t come through, such as a $15 federal minimum wage, substantial student debt relief, a single-payer option for health care, and a ban on oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
Democrats always have excuses here, someone else to blame, like Joe Manchin or the Senate parliamentarian or the conservative Supreme Court. But what matters to voters is results, and Biden/Harris haven’t succeeded in producing results consistently. Truth is, Biden is an aging president, a stumbling figurehead rather than a strong leader, and Harris is deeply unpopular. It’s not exactly the “dream team” the Democrats are running in 2024.
In these increasingly Dickensian times, the Democrats keep shoveling billions of dollars to the Pentagon and to Ukraine while offering a new Cold War with Russia and China. Main Street USA may wish to declare war on those two countries, if only to get money from Congress.
Alternatives exist for the Democrats, of course, such as Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yet the Democratic establishment is too busy mocking or smearing them to listen to their ideas for substantive changes.
The Democratic establishment, it seems, is content to roll the dice in 2024 with Biden/Harris, preferring even to lose to Trump than to win with more progressive and dynamic candidates. Perhaps they truly believe they can “kill” Trump through all those indictments and charges, the equivalent to death by 1000 cuts.
It’s a strategy, I guess—just not a winning one.
If there was ever any doubt that the US president is a figurehead- a puppet for the directors of empire (deep state), Biden/Harris 2024 dispels that.
And if leftists can watch these indictments and feel more and more anger at Democrats, imagine how the 74.2 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020 feel.
Democrats are scaring the shit out of me.
Biden (a sociopathic war monger) and his cabal of neocons are quite good at making totally wrongheaded decisions based on fundamentally flawed assumptions. Remember when they promised everyone an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan and a handover to a fully functioning Afghan army, and that there would be no repeat of the Vietnam debacle with people hanging on to helicopters flying off the roof of the US embassy? Well, ok, in Afghanistan the location was slightly different--they were hanging on to helicopters taking off from the Kabul airport--but it was the same humiliating debacle. Great call Joe! Then, in 2022, it's quite clear that the nefarious cabal also assumed that, once draconian sanctions were applied against Russia for the war in Ukraine (after doing everything possible to provoke Russia for the previous 8+ years), the Russian economy would be totally wrecked and the country would collapse, thereby leading to the defeat of Russia and Putin's downfall. Looks like their assumptions did not work out quite that way, does it? One thing you can count on with Biden and his villainous cabal--they are clueless. Thus, their strategy to defeat Trump is likely to have the same outcome, no matter how much saliva is drooled on MSNBC and CNN in the coming months.