Trump as a One-Term President Would Become DC's Nightmare

[minervadoe]

Trump as a One-Term President Would Become DC's Nightmare

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/trump_as_a_oneterm_president_would_become_dcs_biggest_nightmare.html

 

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. Even more striking is this: nearly 70% of Republicans view the president as standing up for their beliefs, as opposed to only 20% who see congressional Republicans as doing the same. If Donald Trump decides he's running again in 2024, it will be his nomination to lose. If Trump family members or Trump administration veterans decide to run for office on their own, they will become instant frontrunners.

Donald Trump has shined a bright light on Establishment Washington's failures to secure America's borders and to protect America's blue-collar manufacturing workforce. That bright light is not going to fade, and any Republican who thinks the party can return to propping up free trade's twin mantras of endless immigration and overseas slave labor by proxy is denying reality. If "globalism" wasn't a dirty word before, President Trump has made it one now. And for the foreseeable future, any Republican seeking higher office will have to respect the new party Donald Trump has created or suffer the consequences at the polls. Certain NeverTrump Republicans may hate him, but they'll not survive without him.

(4) Potential Destroyer of Both Parties

For the first time since Lincoln's Republican Party supplanted the Whigs in political power, Donald Trump has built a strong enough coalition of voters cutting across traditional party lines that he could choose to take his voters and erect a new party from the ground up. No Republican has done better with minority voters in the last sixty years than Donald Trump, and no Republican since Reagan has succeeded so strongly with blue-collar workers. If the president decides to "walk away," he will take tens of millions of American voters disillusioned with both parties, too.

Traditional Democrats who resent their party's embrace of socialism and working class Republicans who resent their party's priority of Wall Street over Main Street would make natural allies in a new party. Kanye West, Ice Cube, and Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson have all made it clear that they are not happy with the Democratic Party's direction, and Donald Trump is in a position to create a political home for those looking for something new. A new party that places a priority on protecting legal immigrants and American workers over foreign labor forces and that treats engagements in new wars as choices of last resort will attract a strong cross-section of American voters. As a master of branding, Donald Trump could choose to diminish permanently the parties as they now exist and build something else entirely from scratch.

Whatever else happens between now and January 20, Donald Trump is not going away. Washington insiders may finally succeed in removing him from office, but they will make him a formidable and powerful ex-president in the process. They may well regret what they've accomplished. It's certain that they have no idea what they've created.

[minervadoe]

Just now, minervadoe said:

No victory could be more pyrrhic.

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A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Winning a Pyrrhic victory takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

[Historian]

I truly expect this to be the case for Trump.

[Ricordo]

People don't seem to realize that there are three (3) major levels in government.

Level one: Politicians, elected officials. These usually come and go with the socio-political winds.

Level two: High-level government officials. Career people, 20 or 30 years. Traditionally referred to as "bureaucrats" or in these times, "swamp". They basically run the government according to their pre-conceived notions, acquired through years of experience and interpersonal relationships.

Level three: Aspirants to Level three status. 

The threes want become the twos. In time, they seek to also impose on the ones.  And the ones, they get carried away.

But ever so often,  one seeks to disturb that order. If only because he/she responds to the ones that put him in charge as elected officials. And it creates a disturbance in the order of things. At times ephemeral, at times long-lasting.

And that's how most Kindergartens are run...

 

 

[Historian]

Ricardo just hit a home run.  I have worked for Fed, State and Local govs.

The real issue is when level two can't deal with a new level one.

[Swampfox762]

2 hours ago, Ricordo said:

 

But ever so often,  one seeks to disturb that order. If only because he/she responds to the ones that put him in charge as elected officials. And it creates a disturbance in the order of things. At times ephemeral, at times long-lasting.

And that's how most Kindergartens are run...

And, I hope Trump, is that "Every so often".  In 4 years, that man has set back "globalism" 10 years.  Made peace with the Jews and the Arabs of 4 and counting states...Created NO new Wars and is withdrawing our troops.  And...America voted this man OUT of power?  Anybody that believes that...

The WHOLE world wanted Trump and "America First" OUT.  China released the rona to get him out and nobody will convince me other wise.

Yeah, the demented one and the communist whore.  America deserves it.  Especially with the rino roberts of the "supreme" court..."declining" to hear the case from over 20 states....I'll stop now...

 

[Ricordo]

30 minutes ago, Swampfox762 said:

the demented one

Suppose that a Mafioso paid someone 1 million dollars in order to obtain influence over someone. Suppose also that that person the Mafioso paid off decides to quit and take art classes.

Suppose also that Mafiosi have feelings too.

Naaah. Couldn't happen in real life.

[Ricordo]

BREAKING NEWS

The Biden Transition Team has just announced that a new position in the White House has been approved and it's seeking applicants to fulfill it.

Official White House Taster.

It has a remarkable pension plan.

[Ricordo]

I'm pretty certain that the chicoms will not expect any favors in their dealings with the US. Just as Sam Giancana did not expect any favors with Kennedy for influencing the 1960 election. They can be sensitive to the fact that the sins of the son will not reach the father.

H: Dad, I have this great idea. It came to me in a flash....man....that was some good stuff!

BG: I'm proud of you, son. I trust your judgment.

H: I tell you, it's foolproof.

BG: Well, you're the smartest man I know, I mean, from a pure intellectual capacity. As long as you're good, we're good.

H: Thank you dad.