I really hate to say this, since I don’t want it to be true, but it looks like yesterday is the day Trump won the election by a landslide. The optics now are: a candidate who cannot maintain a coherent thought and a heroic one who survived an assassination attempt. Despite the facts, that is the contrast that voters will see. Those images are hard to shake from the subconscious mind.
I imagine his next term will be similar to George W. Bush’s first four years, where dissent was suppressed and harmful policies were steamrolled through. You guys remember the greatest hits, like “Free Speech Zones”, the Patriot Act, NSA surveillance program? Except Trump’s administration will be focused on fighting the enemy within, winning the “culture wars”. Any progressive advances made in the last few years are going be eliminated. Brace yourselves everybody, there are dark days ahead.
There will be no Trump landslide. Quite the opposite. He lost in 2020 with more momentum & money than he has now. His base of voters since then has shrunken. In order to win he has to attract Independents & Undecideds, who just saw an event that -- while exciting -- doesn't change any of the wacky shit he's been saying. Nor does that nullify any of the Project 2025 Gilead fascism he's pushing.
Despite what you hear, "most Democrats" are not abandoning Joe Biden. Even the ones who say they wish he'd step aside say they'll vote for him anyway. George Clooney says he's holding back millions of dollars in donations until the DNC ousts Biden, but they don't need that money. The Biden/Harris war chest is currently at $240 million bucks and growing.
There exists no serious demographic of voter who changed their minds about Trump after his attempted assassination. Sure, his MAGA base is going to vote even harder for him. So what? Everyone else knows he's the same obnoxious asshole as before. But now with extra blood and an ear injury.
Predictions are dumb. We're going to know in a few months who will be president. So get out there and vote against Trump unless you want your fears to come true.
