Trump, the flypaper president
Trump is looking forward to being elected POTUS in 2024. He embraces and will implement the Project 2025 plan. With the recent SCOTUS ruling on Immunity and Chevron, this means Trump can effectively be a dictator. He will likely devolve our democracy to a theocracy (Christian nationalism), blended with predatory corporations that only care about profits, regardless of consequences.
That’s more than enough reason not to elect Trump, but there’s more.
Already a convicted criminal, Trump was found guilty by a jury again! On May 30, 2024, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. These falsifications likely enabled him to win the 2016 election. This led to his disastrous effects on America and 99% of American citizens, including 180,000 needless Covid deaths, weakening national security, undermining our democracy and the rule of law, and causing deep political and xenophobic divisions among Americans.
But this is only the most recent conviction. In 2023, Trump was convicted of 17 felonies, including tax fraud. In the E. Jean Carroll cases, he was convicted of sexual abuse and defamation. On February 16, 2024, Trump was convicted on charges of conspiracy, insurance fraud and falsifying business records.
Trump must pay more than $550M in penalties for these earlier convictions. The May 30, 2024, conviction will likely result in a much-deserved prison sentence. Trump has been indicted for 57 more felonies in three pending cases. Convictions could lead to more prison sentences.
This adds even more to Trump’s well-documented history of criminal acts, six failed businesses, many personality defects, constant pathological lying, and inability to take personal responsibility for his actions by blaming others for his failures.
One would think all this would get through to his MAGA sycophant minions and undermine their support. But it doesn’t: Trump is like flypaper. MAGA devotees whiff the stench of Trump’s B.S. and are drawn to him like flies to cow pies and stick to him like flypaper.
Regardless of Biden’s many successes, this undeterred support for Trump, compounded by Biden’s several highly visible mistakes—prematurely lifting border restrictions and too slow to draw a hard line on Netanyahu’s Gazan genocide—places our democracy in jeopardy.
If Democrats don’t win 2024 elections, federal and state, up and down ballot, we will lose our democracy to a wannabe dictator, theocrats, and predatory corporatists.
What is it going to take to retain and strengthen our republic in 2024? It’s actually quite simple: Americans must vote en masse for Democrats, federal and state, up and down ballot in 2024!