There's a great white shark in the water, but how bad is his bite?

 

Surreal as it is to rational people there are those who view Trump as a messianic figure.

By Hal Brown

Asked what it would take for Trump not to be the Republican nominee Michael Steele (below lower right on MSNBC) chuckled and said "what, an act of God."

NBC published:

Democrats warn party: The threat of Trump winning in 2024 is 'very real'

New NBC News polling shows President Joe Biden with a relatively narrow 49% to 45 % lead over Donald Trump — which is within the survey’s margin of error.

In the article Faiz Shakir, who ran Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, comments stood out to me, especially the lines I put in bold and in the second sentence below a big but:

(he) said the familiarity factor means it’s easier for Biden to remind voters of the reasons they rejected Trump three years ago than it is to build a new argument against DeSantis or another lesser-known candidate.

But, he said, Trump’s political agility should not be overlooked.

Shakir pointed specifically to Trump’s maneuvering on abortion rights after the GOP’s disappointing results in the 2022 midterm elections. Trump once said women should be punished for having abortions and appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn federal abortion protections. But now, Trump says Republicans should ensure abortion prohibitions include exemptions in cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the pregnant person.

“Trump is so amoral that he’s able to reinvent himself on issue after issue and deceive enough people to feel like they might give him a second look, at least in some critical battleground states,” he said. “A lot of it hinges on, are there outside events that kind of prevent him from doing the reinvention?”

What mitigates against Trump actually winning the presidency is that there aren't enough voters who are gullible, warped, bigoted, delusional, or smitten by Trump's amazing (and inexplicable to us) star power to propel him into a second term.

If you can stand to spend 12 minutes watch this video of him speaking at a fundraiser for Jan. 6th defendants from his Bedminster club. He again claimed that “BLM” and “Antifa” were responsible for violence during the riots and of course insisted he won the election.

This 12 minute rant is a reprise of his greatest hits, his lies about winning the election and his grievances. 

It also demonstrates what I call the door hinge question: how loose do the hinges have to become until the door that is Trump and his mental instability have to become for the door to fall completely off and end up so far out there that only those who are as unmoored from reality as he is, those Jim Jones or Heaven's Gate level cult members, won't see he has floated into oblivion.

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Bonus: Message to the Republican Party, if you're gonna get Trump you're gonna need a bigger boat.