RedDeathFlower13 wrote:
I say you should give it time before he and his followers start locking up people in concentration camps while he sends aid to his buddy Vladmir Putin to conquer all of Europe.
Even if that horrific scenario occurs locking people up is not the same as systematically killing all of them like Hitler did. It is a very bad thing that Hitler comparisons have become normalized. It has become reflexive to describe any political thing one finds scary as neo nazis. It trivializes how bad the Nazis were and muddles the real danger of what is being compared to the Nazis.
I think you should give it time before the worst case scenarios do not happen.
Getting back on topic the best way to avoid the worst case scenarios is for Trump to lose.
I decided to reply to this thread because I felt the premise of this thread was way too optimistic. I still feel that way. While I am still pessimistic I do not feel this is hopeless. We know the main problem for Biden is that the public thinks he is too senile to be President. With dementia it’s off and on. People if they are concentrating can be coherent. Take the State of The Union message. There was evidence of senility he mumbled at times, he got things wrong. What did not happen is what a lot of people expected. He did not just stop in the middle and pee his pants and stare into space. Unlike other times after the speech he knew where to go. With the trolling back and forth with Republicans he did more then fine. About the mumbling, the man is a lifelong stutterer. In my amateur opinion he is mildly senile or maybe the mild end of moderately senile. One thing that slows down cognitive decline is a purpose in life. The man’s purpose in life is to prevent Trump from being reelected. He has discussed this for years.
The above while reasons the situation is not hopeless is far, far from optimal. That is mitigated by the bar being set very low. In my amateur opinion Trump has not been mentally well for years now. The legal pressures have made this worse. Maddeningly none of this has had any effect on his popularity whatsoever. Even me has a hard time believing a complete breakdown in public would have no effect. That happening is not out of the question.
The OP’s main premise that a conviction before the election would doom his chances. That was not based on thin air but reputable polling. Since the thread was opened that premise has become shaky to the angst of many. It looks like Trump has been having success in running out the clock with Jack Smith’s cases. In addition seemingly everybody taking classified documents has weakened the political effect of what is considered the strongest legal case. Similar political mitigation with Fanni Willis unprofessional behavior in the fake electors case. That leaves us with the Stormy Daniels Hush Money case which is considered the weakest both legally and politically. But it is also a case that we will probably have a decision before and it will be decided by a blue state jury.
A criminal conviction seems more then plausable.
It is what it is.
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