Adams’s note: this post is taken from a Twitter thread I wrote after Trump announced his indictment from the DOJ.
There is literally no objective argument for any other candidate anymore. If you are a Republican challenger, your campaign is entirely contingent on Donald Trump going to jail. You are an accessory to political persecution. If you support a GOP challenger, you are too.
It is abundantly clear that fully 100% of DeSantis supporters are motivated by subjective, if not entirely selfish, reasons. They want polish. They want “competent governance.” They want some nerdy policy achievement Trump didn’t get. Newsflash: you don’t live in a society where that works anymore. “Competent governance” isn’t going to save you. Banning CRT isn’t going to stop the Feds from throwing you in the gulag.
Ron DeSantis is not Caesar. He’s not even Gaius Gracchus. DeSantis winning won’t stop what’s happening. If anything, Trump losing will only embolden them. They will destroy him. And then they will come for DeSantis too. And they will destroy him.
Even if Trump wins, they will do everything possible to stop him. EVERYTHING. As in JFK. Lincoln. McKinley. I am fully convinced that if Trump somehow wins and somehow becomes President, he will be the target of repeated attempts against his life.
And let me be 100% clear: THEY WILL NOT STOP WITH TRUMP. This doesn’t suddenly go away. They are coming to throw you in a FEMA camp. There is no way out of this. I don’t think a second Trump term would be the beginning of the beginning of what needs to be done. The entire system needs to be smashed into dust, and something resembling America has to be built from scratch.
Can Ronald do that? Maybe. But it is not time for that. The only possible way that America can possibly survive is for Trump to win against all odds. Even then, it’s still 60/40 that we’re headed for collapse anyway.
You don’t think Trump is sufficiently RW on X issue? Go work in the administration. Push him to the right. Hold him accountable. You want competent governance? Get the best people in the Cabinet and the bureaucracy. You don’t like Trump’s style? Too bad. IDGAF what your nerdy reasons are. This is bigger than you and it always has been.
And by the way, if you think I am going to start excusing or ignoring the clownish behavior of Trump and/or MAGA influencers on this site,
You are entirely correct.
This is the first shot at Lexington. It’s victory or the gulag. File in or fall back.
Also, nothing Trump’s camp says or does will be as depraved as hinging your electoral strategy on the other guy going to fucking jail.
In summation,
MAGA. Hat. Fucking. ON.
Bravo!