These days, it’s simple to get lost in media coverage of the economy, Trump’s impeachment, major races, trance madness, UFOs, wars, and other assorted events and forget how close we are to permanently losing this country. And by constant I mean PERMANENT, that is, forever, irreversible, eternal, the kind of change that, God forbid, would lead to a successful armed revolt, a defeat by a foreign enemy in a war, or a zombie apocalypse that would nullify.
Less than three years ago, when the House, Senate and presidency were in Democrats’ hands, they were pushing for changes that would consolidate their power. Chief among the many hellish things they had up their sleeves, Democrats wanted to pack the Supreme Court, make Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia states, and federalize elections to ensure that no conservative of any race could ever win a national election again. And they came dangerously close. Remember when Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were the targets of leftist ire at the time? This was because, fortunately, they had the courage to prevent abolition of the Senate filibuster, which would have paved the way for all the other changes Democrats wanted. If it weren’t for them, it would be a completely different country.
It’s scary to think how close we actually are to the razor blade. In other words, we don’t have time for fun. But the game is exactly what a enormous percentage of Republicans are doing by supporting Donald Trump’s absurd third run for president. For those of us watching from the outside (but for me only recently – I supported Trump until 2020), it’s like watching a sluggish but avoidable train wreck. We know exactly how this will end, but a enormous percentage of the people we try to warn still refuse to get off. So what exactly will this ball of fire and wreckage look like in the context of the political landscape over the next two years? Here are some very likely possibilities behind Door Number One:
Trump gets fewer votes than in 2020.
I hear all the time from Trump supporters who insist that their guy got 74 million votes in 2020, which is a “record” for Republican candidates, even as they ignore inconvenient facts like Biden getting 81 million (even taking away fraud, that’s A LOT of leftists crawling over heated coals to vote against Trump) and that vote totals from EVERY election enhance as population increases over a four-year period. But even with that last fact, I’m still willing to go out on a limb and say that Trump could break a completely different GOP record by getting LESS votes than he did in 2020. Mark that.
Trump receives fewer electoral votes than in 2020.
With fewer popular votes comes fewer electoral votes. Trump, of course, will drop all the states he lost in 2020. It is obvious. He is behind on each of them and has done nothing to move the needle in a positive direction. He’ll also probably lose one or two states he shouldn’t, like Ohio or North Carolina. This will be a disaster the likes of which Republicans haven’t experienced in decades.
Republicans will lose the House.
With Trump on the ballot, charging everyone, especially moderates who narrowly won, to flip control of the party in 2020, Republicans will almost certainly return the House of Representatives to Democrats. And when Hakeem Jeffries gets that gavel, we’ll miss the good aged days of Nancy Pelosi.
Republicans will be on track to lose the Senate.
Most recently, my esteemed colleague from City Hall, Kurt Schlichter predicted that Republicans, even with Trump in the lead, could win two seats in what should be the best GOP Senate cycle in decades. That would give them a slim 51-49 majority, delaying passage of the Democrats’ worst legislation for a while. But when the tide turns toward the Democrats in 2026, the nightmare will truly begin. And this time there won’t be Joe Manchin to stop them.
Democrats will continue the prosecution, ensuring Trump stays in prison until the end of 2025.
Right now, the left has every reason to want Trump impeached while out of prison so they can trick Republicans into voting for him in the primaries (that’s trap!). But when Democrats take the floor in 2024, they will almost certainly put Trump — and many of his surrogates — behind bars for a long, long time. He will no longer be useful to them.
The administrative situation will remain unchanged.
Because of course I do. If you think things are bad now, think how much worse the next four years will be.
Democrats can elect successors to Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, giving the left a 5-4 SCOTUS majority.
Thomas is 75 and Alito is 73. Can both last another five and a half years before the Republican has another shot at the presidency? Considering they are both men and we haven’t lived that long, my rating is “questionable.” At this point, with a 5-4 left-wing majority, expect any freedom you value, from guns to speech, to be summarily stripped away. Right now, the courts are the only thing stopping the Biden administration from implementing the worst of what they have planned, and they don’t even have the House of Representatives. When there is a trifecta of Democrats AND a leftist SCOTUS majority, the game is over.
I get that Trump memes and rallies are comical and this guy is comical as hell. I also understand the desire to vote for the politician who gave us a miraculous victory in 2016. Really. Yes, the former president was his own worst enemy at times, but he was also the target of unprecedented levels of legal attacks from Democrats. The desire for him to not only be vindicated, but also be able to exact sweet, sweet revenge on his – and our – oppressors is palpable. Hell, if I could wave a magic wand and make him president, I certainly would.
But I can’t and you can’t, and because of a number of solid reasons Trump cannot win the general election. That’s why it’s imperative that Republicans nominate someone who can. Our country and our way of life depend on it. There is door number two, if we are wise enough to open it.
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