By J.B. Shurk
Even as the president’s legal team continues to dispute election results in battleground states with large numbers of questionable mail-in ballots and election anomalies, Establishment Washington is pushing Donald Trump out the door. What it failed to accomplish through four years of Deep State sabotage and bipartisan efforts at thwarting the MAGA agenda, the D.C. Club may have finally succeeded through good old-fashioned vote fraud. The District of Corruption is salivating over the possibility of freeing itself from a foe who has singlehandedly damaged the Swamp forever.
No victory could be more pyrrhic.
Forcing Donald Trump from the presidency while half of all likely voters believe the election was stolen from him (including a stunning one-third of Democrats) would backfire on Washington spectacularly. Trump is too ferocious a competitor and too powerful a cultural force to ever disappear into a retirement not of his choosing. At least 75 million Americans voted for the president because, among other reasons, he is seen as an “outsider.” Now Washington insists on making him a martyr, as well.
What will happen if President Trump leaves office in January? He will instantly become the most consequential and powerful ex-president Americans have seen. Making Donald Trump a one-term president will become Establishment Washington’s biggest nightmare.
(1) Biden’s Number One Critic
There’s no way that Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of George Washington by quietly retreating from public life and leaving his successor to lead unscrutinized. Obama has been the most vocal ex-president to date, both questioning Donald Trump’s judgment as president, as well as fanning the flames of the debunked Russia hoax. An ex-president Trump will make Obama look like a piker by comparison.
Biden’s commitment to re-enter the Paris Agreement and backtrack from America’s hydrocarbon energy independence achieved under President Trump has the potential to take an American economy struggling to recover from a year of pandemic lockdowns and kill it overnight. Donald Trump will loudly blame his successor.
Biden has signaled his intent to breathe life into Obama’s Iran Deal after the Trump administration has spent four years weakening Iran’s influence in the Middle East. After helping to foster peace in the region by securing historic trade deals between Israel and many of her longtime adversaries, President Trump has a vested interest in making sure his efforts are not undone. Should Biden lift up a vulnerable Iran and harm Israel in the process, Donald Trump will loudly blame his successor.
President Trump has made cutting illegal immigration into the United States a priority. He’s made renegotiating trade deals that have benefitted communist China at the expense of American workers a priority. He’s made bringing troops home by ending “endless wars” a priority. He’s made protecting Americans’ First and Second Amendment rights important priorities.
Biden has promised to expand immigration and refugee resettlement, to end trade confrontations with China, and to leave foreign policy to the “experts.” And in direct conflict with any oath of office, Biden has promised to confiscate Americans’ guns while supporting the same Big Tech companies that have undertaken campaigns of outright censorship against conservatives’ speech.
Donald Trump will loudly blame his successor for the resulting harm — in all its forms — to Americans. He and his supporters will amplify every misstep made by Joe Biden. “Monday morning quarterbacking” will become a seven-day priority for the former president.
(2) King of a Media Empire
Should Twitter and Facebook decide to censor citizen Trump, he might just build his own media empire and create the largest megaphone for his opinions in the country. Businessman Trump has always enjoyed building things from the ground up. Now that Fox News has chosen to chase conservatives away, a market demand for Trump’s politics is waiting to be filled. Newsmax and One America News Network are expanding their audience shares, but a Trump News Network would dominate future conservative television. Social media and corporate news are now actively censoring conservative voices, and conservative voters would flock to whatever platforms Donald Trump constructs. It’s only a matter of time before the president seizes upon those opportunities.
If Establishment Washington believes “Trumpism” will soon recede once its eponymous leader heads south to Florida, the Swamp is sorely mistaken. After leaving office, Donald Trump’s voice is only going to get bigger. Much, much bigger.
(3) De Facto Head of the Republican Party
If Establishment Republicans believe they can reclaim their party once President Trump leaves office, they are naive. Donald Trump just won more votes than any sitting president in history, shattering what Bush, McCain, and Romney were able to garner at the polls. Even before the 2020 election’s outcome has been decisively concluded, recent polling shows that 54% of Republican voters are ready to back President Trump in 2024.
The 2020 election has always been “Win-Win” for Trump.
The only way it could have been better is if the Democrats cheated in the election so the results are never accepted by the thinking majority of Americans.
Ooops.
Win-Win-Win, I suppose.
From molesting women, children, and now dogs…to having a public scandal involving the clear and demonstrable mis-use of his office to make his family rich…to being the outright puppet of an authoritarian Communist regime…Joe Biden is the clear result of a failed and silly Democrat Party, flailing for power as it goes down hard.
It’s funny that Leftist losers think Trump is somehow “going to jail” for…well…they can’t seem to say what non-crime they are going use just yet.
Instead, Trump’s real war against traitorous and communist Democrats has only just begun.
It’s going to be a fun four years, as we wait for a real election to name a lawful President. Guess we’ll just have to let the chair at the Resolute Desk remain empty for those years…better as we burn out the dead wood in our government.
Trump is the most winning President, ever.
I hope if Trump loses this 2020 farce, that he becomes the loudest voice on the planet. He will have a lot of people to go after. And a lot of support from his base to do it and loudly. Trump 2024 sounds good too.
PT has already won. In four years he has gotten the demokrats to expose themselves as America last Communists/socialists. They permanently lost millions of voters to the point where they’ll have to cheat from here on out in order to win just like they did this year. He got the MSM to expose themselves as lying propagandists for the dems. They will never get their reputation back nor will they ever be regarded as a “free press” as identified in the Constitution by tens of millions of Americans. He got our government institutions, notably the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and now the judicial system possibly all the way up to SCOTUS, to expose themselves as being corrupt or spineless political hacks who don’t give two shits about our laws or Constitution. Tens of millions of Americans will forever view them that way and will no longer have trust and confidence in them. He got the RINO’s to expose themselves as being nothing more than a bunch of Chamberlin’s who could care less about their constituents. They’ll forever be looked upon as traitors to the conservative cause and as such will never have complete control of the Republican Party again.
If the steal does go through, PT will have left a lasting legacy. Tens of millions of us now know exactly where we stand with the dems and the Swamp- at the bottom of their urinal.
@old guy:
I think that’s inevitable. Despite the disinformation campaign to paint Trump as “unpopular” on the world stage, he was loved by many all around the globe.
He’ll start his own party, most likely.
@Nathan Blue:
I think New York has that under control.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Lol. Yeah, Coumo and De Blasio have great “control” over the NYC population…
…like Xi over the Chinese.
Trump will never go to jail, much less face any “charges”. It’s all baseless conspiracies theories.
What else did CNN tell you to think today?
Hahahahahaha…