Before you get sucked into the current vogue of imagining that, having made an announcement, Caligula is destined to win in 2024, let's recollect that he won ONCE, by the literal skin of his teeth, and got his ass kicked the second time.
He's not become more popular since 2016, he's not going to be more popular in two years.
He announced too early, people are going to get tired of him before Election Day, watch.
@mcfate hey, I agree with you. Nobody would accuse the man of having a GOOD (or even workable) plan. I'm just not going to be surprised when he makes this kind of claim in a week or so.
He claims all kinds of silly shit, what does anyone care what he claims?
@mcfate he won't fade into glorious irrelevance until his flailing stops driving news cycles. I've long held that he'd have been gone from public discourse long ago if we simply didn't cover his speeches.
This is literally not how news works, though. We don't not cover events because they upset some people.
@mcfate It's not about upsetting people, it's about optics. There's a profound problem with the split-screen broadcast news cycles that put something crazy on one side of the screen, and commentary on the other side of the screen as if they have equal weight. When you amplify crazy voices, you help spread crazy opinions.
Well, feel free to demand they pretend he doesn't exist, but I don't imagine you'll get very far.
@mcfate I don't want them to pretend he doesn't exist. I want them to cover him with fewer news cycles, so we can actually spend time on things that matter instead of watching the same train wreck everyday, with the same people saying the same things about it as it unfolds.
@sleepingbearcat
That's ridiculous. The Justice Department doesn't care if you're RUNNING for President.
The main effect is that he has to pay his own legal bills now, the RNC won't do it for him any longer now that he's announced.
Where do people get these ideas?