Right now, Donald J. Trump’s opponents can’t quite believe what they’re seeing.
Just a few short months ago, the “Swamp” denizens of Washington were breathing sighs of relief. They had done it! They had defeated the awful Trump, handed the White House to Joe Biden, and could now begin implementing all their cherished plans for a post-Trump America.
And then an amazing thing happened.
A twice-impeached former president who had supposedly incited an “insurrection” at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 has returned—and he’s looking stronger than ever.
This was not in the script that had been so carefully written. The former President Trump is supposed to be a historical footnote at this point. He’s supposed to be utterly destroyed, completely irrelevant, so radioactive nobody will go near him.
Control the Money, Control the Party
The first quarter’s fundraising numbers revealed that Trump is in the process of raising a massive war chest to draw on in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Trump’s Save America PAC outraised the GOP almost 2 to 1 in the quarter, $85 million to $44 million.So how did that happen?
Trump also made a key move during his convention speech. After current North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr stated he will not seek reelection in 2022, former House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment wing of the party quickly anointed their chosen successor: North Carolina House Rep. Mark Walker.
Running Against Trump’s Slate for 2022 and 2024 Will Be Prohibitively Expensive
Whatever the establishment GOP and their donors expected to have to spend in the upcoming GOP primaries in the next two elections, they had better go ahead and quadruple it. At the very least.Trump has made it clear that he fully intends to make it awfully expensive to get GOP establishment picks elected. He will be running his own endorsed slate of candidates against the candidates put forward by the establishment.
That entrenched GOP establishment wing was able to hold out for all four of the years that Trump was president, hunkered down and determined to wait him out. Trump could often give them only token attention before turning back to more pressing matters.
Now, Trump isn’t president, which means he can give them his full and undivided attention.
He’s going to root up the party’s Republican establishment wing by starving them out financially, and then beating them electorally. Trump’s plan is that when he returns to the White House in 2024, the Democratic Party isn’t going to be a viable political force due to the exposure of the alleged election theft, and the Republican establishment will be gone from a Congress where Trump supporters are fully in control.
Panic at CNN
CNN anchor Jim Acosta argued the Saturday morning prior to Trump’s NC convention speech that the country is in the midst of a “slow motion coup” because the former president hasn’t gone away in disgrace yet.Far from being hunkered down in a bunker, isolated and under siege, Trump was about to hit the campaign trail again. It was almost as if five years of relentless, dedicated effort by an increasingly frantic news media to destroy this man and his family had all accomplished nothing.
If Trump would return to the White House for a second term, one thing is clear: Every attempt to destroy him as a political agent of change in this country will have failed. And in a second term, Trump would have a far easier time implementing his full agenda than he did the first time around.
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