05-17-2021, 08:03 PM
(05-17-2021, 01:52 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: It feels to me like things are coming to a head again as they have not for a while. Georgia and New York are targeting Trump. The DC courts are circling Barr and his so called Justice Department. Florida is holding meetings where the state law gives the governor the right to block extradition. They are circling Gaetz too. I have a feeling that we will some day move from ‘it is in the works’ to ‘it is happening.’
Can you run a presidential campaign while not daring to leave Florida?
Eugene Debs got 914,191 votes (3.41% of the popular vote) in 1920 despite being in jail. The 3.41% is unusually high for a Third Party nominee. Trump does have his cult, and he has plenty of local proxies. He can appear by closed-circuit television anywhere he wants, as at (presumably right-wing) churches.
More troublesome is that Democrats have found how to defeat him. Show him lying. Show him egging on Putschists. Show the ugly stats of COVID-19.
As for Matt Gaetz -- the facts are circling him like vultures around a dying creature.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.