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Since the verdict, Trump and his supporters have worked hard to spin the conviction as a good thing for his campaign, but those arguments kind of sound like a desperate attempt to shape a narrative that is spinning out of their control.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo put it correctly: this is not an “outpouring of rage and anger,” so much as “an overwhelming effort to match and muffle the earthquake of what happened yesterday afternoon with enough noise and choreography to keep everyone in Trump’s campaign and on the margins of it in line and on side.”
Still, there is more behind the MAGA support for Trump than fearful political messaging. Trump has been hailed as a savior by his supporters because he promises to smash through the laws and norms of American democracy to put them into power. There, they can assert their will over the rest of us, achieving the social and religious control they cannot achieve through democratic means because they cannot win the popular vote in a free and fair election. With Trump’s conviction, his supporters are more determined than ever to destroy the rules that block them from imposing their will on the rest of us.
And yet the frantic MAGA spin on the verdict reveals that there is another way to interpret it. Americans who had lost faith that the justice system could ever hold a powerful man accountable as Trump’s lawyers managed to put off his many indictments see the verdict as a welcome sign that the system still works.
The simple fact is becoming president is Trumps only chance to avoid being held accountable for crimes. Not becoming president leaves Trump and the MAGA supporters who helped him try to steal the 2020 (and, as was proven in court, successfully stole the 2016) presidential election at the mercy of the American justice system. But that's the way its supposed to work for criminals. It's normal for convicts to use whatever means they can to get away with it. Trump just has more means than most convicts.
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo put it correctly: this is not an “outpouring of rage and anger,” so much as “an overwhelming effort to match and muffle the earthquake of what happened yesterday afternoon with enough noise and choreography to keep everyone in Trump’s campaign and on the margins of it in line and on side.”
Still, there is more behind the MAGA support for Trump than fearful political messaging. Trump has been hailed as a savior by his supporters because he promises to smash through the laws and norms of American democracy to put them into power. There, they can assert their will over the rest of us, achieving the social and religious control they cannot achieve through democratic means because they cannot win the popular vote in a free and fair election. With Trump’s conviction, his supporters are more determined than ever to destroy the rules that block them from imposing their will on the rest of us.
And yet the frantic MAGA spin on the verdict reveals that there is another way to interpret it. Americans who had lost faith that the justice system could ever hold a powerful man accountable as Trump’s lawyers managed to put off his many indictments see the verdict as a welcome sign that the system still works.
The simple fact is becoming president is Trumps only chance to avoid being held accountable for crimes. Not becoming president leaves Trump and the MAGA supporters who helped him try to steal the 2020 (and, as was proven in court, successfully stole the 2016) presidential election at the mercy of the American justice system. But that's the way its supposed to work for criminals. It's normal for convicts to use whatever means they can to get away with it. Trump just has more means than most convicts.
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Yeah, there is no war like lots of his cult members were posting online. All they did was throw their money at him like the lemmings they are. I still don't see him serving jail time for this one, but he definitely should be in the other cases.
I heard that Melania is afraid that he may be sentenced to home arrest. That would send her screaming from the courthouse to the Whitehouse. No fate worse for her that having to seem him every day, all day!
He's a felonious, rapist criminal fleecing a cult of poorly educated lemmings.