Even though we’ve become desensitized to much of the anti-Trump hysterics emanating from the liberal media, it doesn’t make it any less entertaining. It’s a toxic relationship: these hosts hate Trump but need to talk about him non-stop for ratings. He’s also the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, who has been indicted four times. And yet, that hasn’t damaged the former president’s chances of re-clinching the Republican nomination. On the other side, Joe Biden’s poll numbers are so bad that even CNN told its viewers to drop the fiction that Trump can’t win in 2024. The gamble that Trump would be the easier opponent is starting to disintegrate.
Is there panic settling in with this crowd? If it’s not about the indictments, they’ve been going non-stop about how Donald Trump will kill freedom forever in America, even going so far as to cancel MSNBC’s Morning Joe, which no one watches. From members of Congress to presidential historians to loudmouths like Donny Deutsch, Trump 2.0 would end democracy in America, which never existed; we’re a republic. It’s a predictable narrative that will become a mainstay now that it looks like Trump will be the nominee, barring any seismic shift in the GOP race.
MSNBC's Doris Kearns Goodwin: If Trump isn't convicted, "then it's going to take ... organizing the country at all the levels so he cannot win an election" pic.twitter.com/pU7DY1XhGN
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 4, 2023
John Dean: If Trump isn’t convicted, “then we don’t have the democracy we believe we have and we’re in a lot of trouble, a heap of trouble.” pic.twitter.com/ncAgCJVCKi
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 3, 2023
ERIC SWALWELL:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 3, 2023
"It would be the end of our democracy if Donald Trump was able to get back into office." pic.twitter.com/Y1mHgZGjxa
MSNBC’s @BeschlossDC on Trump: “From time to time, America faces threats from monsters who want to destroy our democracy. That happened in 1861, with the Confederacy … The same thing happened in 1933 … Pearl Harbor, 1941. We were bombed. Our system was very much in danger, our… pic.twitter.com/BPaOnPNOE9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 2, 2023
The Democrats planned to goad the GOP base into nominating Trump again, thinking he would be an easier opponent. That gamble might have paid off since there was little to no movement on the Biden bribery allegations until the FBI released the FD-1023 report from their informant, who claimed since 2018 that this Biden-Burisma arrangement was ethically questionable. It was later alleged that Burisma bribed Joe and Hunter for legal protections for $10 million. The IRS whistleblowers added a layer of intrigue when they delivered credible testimony that their investigations into Hunter Biden were hamstrung and interfered with by Justice Department officials, who worried that some of their investigative leads could involve the president.
Biden’s physical and mental decline hasn’t been lost on voters, and his “Bidenomics” agenda remains stuck in the mud as inflation continues to torch working families.
Being the “anti-Trump” guy on the ballot might not be enough this time.
