Trump is likely to win. Last time, he was constrained by not having willing operatives in place in the various agencies and departments. They aren’t going to make that mistake again. Also last time, after a few big and largely ineffective demonstrations, people generally let him do what he wanted without doing much about it. I hope that this time, we will be willing and able to actually act. There will be people who need protection or to get out of there. I hope we will help.

@ZonaPellucida Going to be an unpopular opinion but I feel you're spot on.The threat of him could've been neutralised a long time ago but someone,somewhere decided to treat him with kid gloves lest they motivated the rabble that follow him.In my opinion they should've hammered him from day one.The trouble they thought they'd avert is coming regardless,should've just ripped the plaster off when they had the chance instead of letting him even near a chance for a second term.

@FrankCannon @ZonaPellucida From my perspective, he has been hammered on every front. His J6 mob has been facing huge legal repercussions. He's been facing lawsuit after lawsuit, with convictions and sentences. We even know about the corruption and election tampering because it is being exposed in the media.

The Republican party has decided that TFG is its moral and ideological centre. There are no tools available in a democratic system to deal with that from within.

@sumpnlikefaith Then you make the tools,you create precedent.I seem to remember many times when he was granted stays on court appearances and other put-offs when they should've been going for the jugular and not treated him as if they were merely chasing up a few parking tickets.He had a lot of leeway given to him that an ordinary citizen just wouldn't have got. @ZonaPellucida

@FrankCannon @ZonaPellucida You're right. He was given advantages, stays and even had things thrown out of court by partisan judges.

Appeals don't work -- the corruption goes all the way up to SCOTUS.

The only way to solve this would have been for Biden to grow and stack SCOTUS, which would have destabilised the country even more.

The blatant corruption on the republican side with election tampering, voter interference, and whatever the hell else Musk is doing will need a reckoning.

@sumpnlikefaith Every time they reached a critical juncture,they eased off instead of pressing the attack,they gave him wiggle room.Whatever strategy and reasoning for it has spectacularly backfired.Whether it was because they thought he was the easiest to go up against this year,they were afraid of setting precedents that could then be turned against their own side,whatever the reasoning they've shot themselves in both feet. @ZonaPellucida

@FrankCannon @ZonaPellucida I mean, maybe there was a way to push harder. But what I saw was the rule of law being used to undermine his whole enterprise.

He's a felon now. His network has been weakened. So many grifters surrounding him have faced massive legal consequences. All the checks and balances were put into effect.

But...somehow...everything that should matter to people making a choice about who should lead them no longer does. Democrats cannot be blamed for that.