Trump can’t win in 2024

Whether it be divinity or simply chaos, something out there thinks this cosmic joke of time circling back onto itself is hilarious.

The rest of us? Not so much.

Americans everywhere are groaning over what is to come later this year: a nasty political fight between incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Another round of old white guys who are going to determine the course of the future for the United States with their actions (or inactions) for the next century, well after they are dead and turned to dust.

I cautiously ask the following question of random people I see out and about: don’t you wish we had different options for the election? So far, I haven’t found anyone who would disagree with me, off the record.

Yet this isn’t the way this is going to go when it comes to the ballot box. The GOP is so enamored with Donald Trump that they are willing to give him another term in office to wreck what is left of the party, which should have happened in 2020. The spell didn’t wear off for some reason with the leadership in Washington when it comes to the former president, who has made so much “history” over the past decade of our national existence that honestly, I think we’re all stuck in the same delusion that those who fall under the spell of narcissists know all too well.

There’s a conservative national belief that this time Trump will “do better” with a second term separated by four years of additional turmoil following the ongoing impact of COVID and global warfare. That he’ll somehow cure the nation of what ails it in all respects, even though it seems he’s running for President for the campaign money to “pay” for the legal battles he faces in Florida, Georgia, and the nation’s capital. I’m not even including the recent losses in court in New York. That $83.3 million verdict had to hurt.

Past evidence clearly shows he isn’t planning on paying anyone, and that his ultimate goal is to be absolved of everything he’s ever done or said as if he is a deity and not a man. If the NFTs we saw previously with his trading cards are any indication, he is just a few steps away from fully-fledged cult leadership.

The former president has thus far dodged reality and made it far enough with awful attorneys and civil litigation to avoid stepping foot in any jail. Reality I think hit home last year when he had his mugshot taken in Fulton County. Hence why Republicans have a target on Fanni Willis and are hoping to somehow force her RICO prosecution to end before Trump has to face a Georgia jury.

And what exactly does it say about our nation when a portion of the population is willing to support a man who is facing all kinds of court charges for nefarious deeds, who attempted to overthrow the will of voters in a national election all the while throwing everyone who supported those efforts RIGHT UNDER THE BUS.

Look at what happened to Rudy Giuliani: he went from America’s Mayor in the history books to an utter joke.

The real threat I see down the horizon is that Trump has declared on a potential first day in office he’ll be a dictator. But ONLY ON THAT DAY. Mhm.

Suppose he keeps his word. How many dictates can someone declare in 24 hours? If you have them already prepared, it could be thousands.

What kind of country remains after that? What if one of those dictates, for instance, is that Donald Trump is the new savior of the world and we must all worship him and directly tithe him 10% of our income? What then, exactly?

This of course exists in a reality not yet determined. The reality at hand remains the following: Donald Trump has not yet won the nomination, and much can happen in the next 9 months before the first Tuesday in November arrives.

I’m just talking about the primaries at the moment too. Trump’s followers have completely taken control of the GOP narrative such that even with low turnout and unenthusiastic support from the people who show up in November but not early on, he is probably doomed to lose one way or another.

As likely as it is enough people turn up to vote for Donald Trump in November, there are just as many who will vote for Joe Biden to remain in office – if not more.

Here’s a hypothetical you also have to consider: Trump is probably going to be in front of a jury in the middle of the summer campaign in DC. Those January 6 charges are going to stick. Jack Smith will not be messing around, and it’ll take a lot of felonious things to have happened in the background for that case to not end in a conviction.

So amid an appeal, he could just as likely be stuck on an ankle monitor at Mar-a-Lago unable to campaign for election. What happens then?

If the news on Tuesday is any indication of where things stand for him, hopes for the trial to be slowed to a crawl and not impact the election isn’t likely to happen. An appeals court in DC ruled that his concept of Presidential Immunity doesn’t exist. He can TRY to take it to the Supreme Court, but I don’t think the outcome is going to go his way.

It keeps building and building with each Breaking News item that shows up. It puts people on edge, continues to intensify the national anxiety, and the divide grows wider by the day as the two parties wage total war against one another.

This insanity has to stop. Yet everyone seems perfectly fine with driving a freight train toward another at full speed with the way national politics and culture play out.

The national trauma of how the election played out in November 2020 is expected to be repeated all over again, and even if Trump were to win the Democrats will make sure he is going to pay for it. Lawsuits, impeachments, and headaches aplenty are on the horizon for a future President Trump if he makes it to office.

Nothing good will come of a second term with Trump in office no matter what happens today, tomorrow, or a year from now.

Take a deep breath and think about what is going on in our country, then maybe try to walk down a different path from the one we’re on currently. The outcome the way we are going will end badly for everyone and the joke will ultimately be on all of us.