Democrats Secure Trump’s Nomination

With DeSantis out, it’s Mission Accomplished for Operation Indictments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced yesterday that he was suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination.

I admit, I’m a bit disappointed.

Of all the candidates who jumped into the 2024 race, Ron DeSantis was far and away the best of the lot and the only one who could point to a proven track record of turning campaign promises into accomplishments.

It’s too bad Republican primary voters aren’t interested in electing the best guy for the job. They’re much more focused on expressing their anger at a weaponized justice system by nominating the victim of it.

That’ll teach’em!

Donald Trump is getting the nomination for 91 reasons, and each of them is a criminal charge against him.

Early in 2023, DeSantis was the odds-on favorite to deprive Trump of his third bite of the presidential apple.

Naturally, Democrats were in a panic.

They knew an 81-year-old Joe Biden could not compete against a young, competent, successful, popular governor who is a military veteran with a lovely young family.

Just the optics of Biden standing beside DeSantis on a debate stage would have been enough to destroy the senile old coot’s chances.

But then, like manna from heaven, in late March 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg rained down 34 criminal charges on Donald Trump in connection to the hush money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

With that indictment, the political winds shifted.

Republicans, furious over the politically-motivated charges, rallied to Donald Trump just as they had every other time the Democrats went after him.

In the 24 hours following the indictment, the Trump campaign was flooded with more than $4 million in donations from indignant voters who were sick and tired of politically motivated witch hunts.

Bragg’s indictment of Trump sealed the Republican Party’s 2024 fate.

No other Republican candidate, no matter how successful and electable, stood a chance against an indicted Donald Trump.

Abraham Lincoln could rise from the grave and announce he was running for president, and Republican voters would call him a RINO Neocon grifter. Trump supporters on social media would mock Lincoln’s facial mole and ugly beard while making Photoshops of Mary Todd Lincoln getting gang-raped.

Just weeks after Ron DeSantis officially entered the race, special counsel Jack Smith rushed in to save Trump’s bacon yet again by indicting him on 40 charges over his mishandling of classified documents.

Once again, Republican voters, even those who didn’t support Trump, raged over the weaponized justice system targeting President Biden’s political opponent.

In August, Smith indicted Trump again on four felony charges, this time for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results.

That same month, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted Trump on 13 charges, including racketeering.

There was no going back.

Trump's polling skyrocketed, but not because he had a crack team of brilliant campaign people. Trust me. He doesn’t. The Trump campaign is loaded with reprobates, cheats, sycophants, psychopaths, and oleaginous hangers-on. The guy couldn’t even bother to campaign. Hell, he rarely left Mar-a-Lago except to appear in court.

No. Trump skyrocketed in the polls thanks to the Democrat Party’s Operation Indictment.

For months now, Trump has been banging on about how these indictments amounted to election interference.

He’s right, just not in the way he would have you believe.

The indictments weren’t designed to stop Trump from becoming the 2024 Republican nominee but to ensure that his nomination happened.

As Jesse Kelly noted on Twitter last night:

There will be a million eulogies for the DeSantis campaign and almost all of them will be wrong and laced with bias. Simple truth is you cannot fight the ocean. No candidate or campaign was going to defeat an indicted Trump. Period.

And it worked like a charm.

Democrats are loathsome gits, certainly, but they are deviously smart loathsome gits.

For four years, they watched Republican voters rally to Trump’s defense every time he was the target of attacks.

RussiaGate.

Impeachment One.

Impeachment Two.

Democrats watched the lengths Republicans were willing to go to defend Donald Trump and quickly concluded that Republican voters enjoy the idea of their guy being a martyr nearly as much as their guy enjoys playing the martyr.

It didn’t take Democrats long to figure out that if they indicted Trump in the lead-up to a presidential election, Republican voters would, by a large margin, rally to his side like he was Jesus dragging a cross to Gethsemane.

The Democrats also know that the one Republican who is most likely to lose to the deeply unpopular Joe Biden is the guy who lost to the deeply unpopular Joe Biden the first time around.

Using what they learned over the last four years, the Democrats led Republican voters directly into their trap.

Now we’re stuck with Trump because the Democrat Party, with the help of the American corporate media, manipulated Republican voters into doing the very thing that will lead the Republican Party to defeat.

The Republicans courageous enough to shout, “It’s a trap!” were quickly labeled “DeSimps” and “Never Trumpers” and accused of supporting the Justice Department’s witch hunt against Trump.

The 2024 presidential election, which could have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the country to undo the damage caused by the American-hating Marxists, will now be a replay of all the shit voters are sick of.

The multiple indictments against Donald Trump will not only ensure his nomination but will also boost voter enthusiasm among disheartened and indifferent Democrats.

With Trump’s nomination a near certainty, many of the Democrat voters who have soured on Joe Biden will happily bite the bullet and vote for old Joe in November if only to make sure that Donald Trump never steps foot in the White House again.

Now, it is possible that this manipulation of the electorate could backfire on the Democrats in 2024 the same way it did in 2016.

The Democrats in 2016 shoved Donald Trump into the spotlight while their handmaids in the media handed the novice politician billions of dollars in free campaign airtime, all in the misguided belief that if Trump won the GOP nomination, Hillary would beat him like an orange-faced stepchild in the General Election.

You may recall that this plan backfired.

Sure, the Democrats helped Trump secure the nomination, but the second part of their master plan — the part that mattered — failed spectacularly.

Could that happen again in 2024?

Possibly, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

In 2016, despite being a well-known television personality, Trump was a political outsider. That’s not the case today. Trump is no longer the outsider standing up to the entrenched establishment. He is the establishment.

Voters know what to expect from Trump because he was president for four years. He is no longer an unknown entity.

What’s more, Trump’s antics following his 2020 loss damaged him. Rather than spending the last three years building a broader coalition of voters, Trump has been systematically chipping away at the support he used to enjoy by playing the victim and carping endlessly about his election loss.

Look at the Iowa caucus. To some degree, Trump was a pseudo-incumbent, having just been the GOP president less than three years before. He should’ve trounced the other three candidates by 50 points.

He didn’t. He got 51% while the other 49% voted against him.

That isn’t a good sign.

While many of the 40-50% of Republicans who oppose Trump will probably hold their noses and vote for him in November, I doubt that Trump can attract the Independents he needs to defeat Joe Biden. This is doubly true if Trump is convicted in any of his trials before voters go to the polls in November.

And, see, that’s the point of Operation Indictments.

You have to give the Democrats their due. They played this masterfully.

Operation Indictments was always a two-pronged attack, first to ensure Republicans rallied behind Trump to hand him the nomination and then to ensure that Trump would limp into November, not just saddled by criminal indictments but also facing possible prison time.

Several polls have shown that while a large segment of Republican voters are still willing to vote for Trump in November even if he is convicted in one or more of the cases against him, the same can’t be said about Independent voters. If Trump is found guilty, the majority of Independents, not to mention about 25-30% of Republican voters, would bail on him. There is no victory in this scenario.

You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t said a word about Nikki Haley, who, at least for now, is still running for president.

Haley might be popular with liberals, Democrats, and the media, but she isn’t popular with the majority of Republicans who turn up to vote in primaries. She’s trailing Trump by double digits in New Hampshire, and while there is little polling out of South Carolina, it’s looking as if she won’t even win her home state.

Even if Haley has enough deep-pocketed donors to keep her in the race beyond South Carolina, without a win either there or in New Hampshire, she would be a rotting carcass slamming against the side of Trump’s ship as he sails to the nomination.

You see, Nikki? That’s the downside of wanting it to be a two-person race. When you lose, you won’t have anyone else to blame.

I’ve been asked if I would vote for Trump in the General Election, and I haven’t decided.

Being a registered Republican, I am accustomed to holding my nose and voting for a crappy candidate. It is such a common feature of party membership, I’m surprised a clothespin doesn’t come with the voter registration card.

I can’t say I relish the idea of having to choose between a braindead octogenarian controlled by an army of Marxist weirdos and a near-octogenarian crybaby surrounded by sycophantic reprobates out for revenge.

You might as well ask me if I prefer eating a bowl of dog shit or a platter of maggot-infested rotten meat.

I’m just not hungry enough to consider either, and I don’t know if I could ever get that hungry.

The only thing I know for sure is that I will vote for every single down-ballot Republican because, with Trump sitting at the top of the ticket like a gigantic orange millstone, they’re going to need all the help they can get.

I’ll probably put off my decision until the last minute. Who knows what could happen in the next ten months? I could be dead by then. Same for Biden or Trump, come to think of it.

All I know for sure is that the Democrats scored a big win with DeSantis dropping out, and no matter what happens next, from where I’m sitting, the outcome is looking pretty damn grim.