By Brandon Morse
Last week I wrote about how a good deal of former President Donald Trump’s popularity is fueled by pure spite by the people whose lives have been damaged or made harder by the Biden administration’s destructive policies.
His popularity has risen in part because the Democrats have made it very clear to the American people that they fear Trump, and if the people who’ve made your life miserable are telling you that they’re afraid of someone, you’re probably going to gravitate toward that figure and attempt to put him between yourself and them:
My theory is that as Biden and the Democrats cause more suffering, they create a byproduct of spite which people will then use to select which opponent of the administration they’ll end up voting for. Combined with the fact that the entirety of the Democrat Party attack machine has been aimed at Trump, including endless media reports, a weaponized justice system, and a mugshot that gave Trump “outlaw” status, you can bet that the Democrats have effectively told people who the party is afraid of.
This has caused the people to infuse Trump with even more support, causing him to only grow in influence despite never having appeared on a debate stage. In fact, I’m willing to bet that a lot of the people now supporting Trump haven’t actually seen anything he’s had to say over the past few years with the exception of random clips they accidentally came across. I think many people just remember that things were much better under him and got much worse when he was gone.
Keep in mind that the people who now support him aren’t all GOP voters. Many of them are Independents and former Democrats who feel Reagan’s old saying about not leaving the party but the party leaving him.
Every single attack on Trump has only increased his power. Trump has yet to step on a debate stage this election season and he’s been the runaway choice for the GOP primary since the word “go.” If the Democrats had never mentioned Trump again after 2020, he wouldn’t be half as popular as he is now, but the Democrats couldn’t stop obsessing over him.
And for some reason, Democrats never learned this lesson.
Many Democrats in positions of power have attempted to get their names on the books by attempting to be the stone that finally trips Trump and stops him from running in the 2024 election against Joe Biden. Each attempt has failed to do what it was supposed to, which brings us to the latest one.
Colorado successfully took Trump off the ballot in that state, and this was quickly followed up by Maine. They used section 3 of the 14th Amendment to do this, which is an old law that effectively disqualifies anyone who led or participated in a rebellion against the government. Democrats point to January 6 as their excuse, even though Trump did not lead or participate in the events of that day.
I’m not sure if these decisions from these states will survive the U.S. Supreme Court, making it one more failed attempt to stop Trump.
What I do know is that this move will be one more can of gasoline on the raging bonfire of spite that the American people feel against the Democrat Party, and I don’t see how this doesn’t have the added effect of making him more desirable than ever before.
Here’s how I see this playing out…
More Democrats in various states are going to attempt to put their name on getting Trump kicked off their state’s ballots–in an attempt to win clout amongst their peers and possibly secure themselves high positions down the line. This issue will likely go to the U.S. Supreme Court and be shot down. As even The Guardian mentions, utilizing the 14th Amendment to accomplish this comes with its own hidden landmines:
Nor is it clear if section 3 applies to the presidency. An early draft mentioned the office, but the final draft did not. If it does apply to the presidency, Trump’s lawyers will argue that it is a political question that should be decided by voters and any effort by judges to get involved is a denial of the candidate’s right to fair legal procedure because it was made without the benefit of a public trial.
They may also argue that January 6 was not an insurrection but more akin to a riot that Trump was not himself involved in and that he was using his rights of free speech when he cajoled the crowd: “We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country any more.”
If — and likely when — the attempt to keep Trump off the ballot fails, it’ll be one more signal to the public that Trump is a strong, unstoppable candidate that the Democrats can’t seem to stop. It’ll be one more feather in his cap as he all but meanders toward the White House.
The bottom line is that Trump was given another push by the Democrats and will likely continue to get these unintentional endorsements for free until the SCOTUS shoots it all down. This will leave Democrats empty-handed and embarrassed, and Trump will once again walk away looking like a man who can’t do anything but win. It’s just more momentum.
Democrats have made Trump the most popular candidate going into 2024. They’re addicted to the act, and as voting day in 2024 gets closer, the panic will only rise and the Democrats will continue to make fools of themselves trying to stop the elephant in the room from sitting wherever it wants.
And the more they do it as they make the people suffer, and the spite only grows, the more likely it is he’ll be delivered straight into the White House by the very same Democrat Party that’s struggling desperately, and failing, to keep him out.
They can’t help it. The direction they’ve taken their party has been a disastrous failure. The Republican party has been slightly better, but not lunatic like the Democrats. But Trump took us back to an age where government was supposed to serve the people and people were patriotic. Trump brought success after success and the Democrats, knowing not only could they never match that success but, in its current far, far leftist version, don’t even WANT to, they have to create an alternative Trump image and then destroy it.
Just as Democrats are totally out of tune with everyone that doesn’t live in a coastal gated community, they see each of their petty, infantile, unconstitutional assault on Trump’s right to run as a candidate and our right to vote for him as a stunning victory, simply by virtue of them doing it. They all cheer and high-five themselves while one attempt after another weakens and crumbles. Every time they get out of the protected zone of a biased Democrat court or the leftist Ministry of Propaganda, these sorties are thrown back. But, they are too busy celebrating their stupid, illogical acts to notice.
One thing is concerning; they’ve tried election fraud, they’ve tried impeachment, they’ve tried coups and they’ve tried lawfare. There is just about only one course left open to them. I hope Trump has his guard high and tight. He IS in danger.
Such a foolish effort to defeat an opponent without getting votes from the people.
Despite US Supreme Court appeal, Trump certified as candidate on Colorado GOP ballot
It is more than likely that the Court with render an expedited ruling following oral hearings scheduled for February 8.
It appears the left is tearing the fabric of democracy to pieces.