VOICES OF EXPERIENCE So many high-ranking Republicans who served in the Trump regime, those who were able to observe him up close and in power, adamantly refuse to support his recidivism. Consider also the dozens of Republican personnel with first-hand knowledge of his depravity who have given corroborative, damning sworn testimony against him. (His fellow disgraced, discredited dregs like Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn are the foul exceptions, of course.) What 17 of Trump’s ‘Best People’ Said About Him Full List of Ex-Trump Officials Not Voting For Him in 2024 Former Trump officials are among the most vocal opponents of returning him to the White House Less than one-third of Trump's cabinet has supported him in 2024 Experienced, conservative Republicans in the know know he stinks and say so, wreaking havoc with the Loser's bleating about partisan persecution, whining that he is a pathetic victim - a tantrum parroted by his grievance-driven butt-barnacles. The Loser's being the clueless pawn of Putin and Xi does not sit well with distinguished military patriots: Why 780 retired generals and former national security leaders spoke out against Trump Top Former Military Personnel urge Supreme Court to reject Trump immunity Incorrigible Trump pantywaists appear to be impotent in confronting the mass opposition to Trumpery expressed by so many conservatives, notably so many Republicans intimately familiar with the Loser. These former Trump officials oppose his White House bid 17 Trump Cabinet-Level Appointees Criticizing Trump Trump's Bid for Immunity Opposed by Former Military Officials List: Trump Former Allies Who Turned Against Him It is amusing that so many reviling the sexual abuser are his "best people" - clearly savvy individuals that merited his effusive commendations. E.g., Bill Barr blasts Trump for call to kill FISA: ‘Crazy and reckless’ “Bill Barr is a man of unbelievable credibility and courage, and he’s going to go down on the history books!”
All very true. But the problem, election wise is you have as many folks who don’t want Biden reelected as don’t want Trump to return to the white house. Roughly around a quarter of all Americans. Who dislike both, who don’t want neither one to become the next president. They hold the key as to who wins or loses, if they vote which many polls show they have no plans on choosing between these two unwanted major party candidates. Either that or they are stating if they do vote, it’ll be for a third-party candidate, voting against both major party candidates. For anyone not named Biden or Trump. About 1 in 4 Americans have unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump https://www.pewresearch.org/short-r...ve-unfavorable-views-of-both-biden-and-trump/ 29% in U.S. Say Neither Biden nor Trump Would Be Good President https://news.gallup.com/poll/642911...utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication
They're all easily dismissed as malcontents, traitors to the cause of Trumpery, members of the deep state.............any number of ways to rationalize their critique of His Orangeness. You're either in the cult or you are not. Being in demands blind devotion. An absolute forfeiture of critical thinking or questioning the word of the MAGA god. Those folks are heretics.
Trump is corrupt. He can only surround himself with blind, radical zealous or self serving "loyalists" and other corrupt people. He will always need people willing to commit crimes "for him". He needs "fall guys" and "blindly loyal idiots". Look at Allen Weiselberg(?), dumb arse but his family will hopefully get the pay off promised.
Popularity is a disparate matter from the informed assessment of experienced, knowledgable individuals, particularly members of one's own Party who had earned the endorsement of the subject who praised and appointed them. I can find no comparable outspoken disenchanted political kinsmen of the President who served with him in the Obama or Biden administrations, nor any such high-ranking military. Personally, I regard the inability to respect the results of a certified democratic election, inciting goons to deny the will of the People in an attack upon law enforcement, and a concerted attempt to demean the American justice system and threaten officers of the court and their families eminently disqualifying, but the damning verdict of so many Trump regime alumni is significant.
So many who had achieved a modicum of success and/or repute have been thoroughly befouled or significantly diminished by close encounters of the Trumpy kind. Trumpstink is tenacious. Some will never be able to delouse.
Just about everybody who was close to Trump in his administration is either in prison, or waiting to be in prison, or has been in prison... Or is now telling what a creep he really is. However, many of them (like Bill Barr) are no better....
I’ve always been election oriented. Placing things in an election perspective. The goal as I see it is to defeat Trump come November. All those who left the Trump administration that now don’t like him one bit, they have but one vote. Come November, it won’t be how you or I view Trump. It’ll be how that quarter or more of all Americans view both Biden and Trump. Those who today dislike and don’t want neither one. They’ll decide who wins and loses regardless of our view of Trump. Those who dislike and don’t want neither one is the huge problem here, as I see it. That is if one wants to ensure a Trump defeat. One needs to remember that most of those were firmly against Trump in 2020. Today, they’re against both. They haven’t changed their mind about Trump, but they sure have about Biden. I do find it strange that most democrats, Biden supporters totally ignore this fact. That they think Biden not being Trump is enough to win in 2024. That was true about 2020, but I don’t think it is flying in 2024.
Authoritarianism is very attractive to some people. As a pragmatic matter, I can only hope that most Americans will reject it, regardless of their lack of enthusiasm for the President. It is an existential matter, not a beauty contest. [Respected, conservative retired judge J. Michael] Luttig said that while “of course, the cause of secessionists was uniquely odious — to protect slavery” — the 2021 insurrection, in a geographical sense, was “broader than the South Carolina insurrection that triggered the Civil War.” “Mr. Trump tried to prevent the newly-elected President Biden from governing anywhere in the United States. The South Carolina secession prevented the newly-elected President Lincoln from governing only in that State. The threat or use of armed force to prevent a newly-elected President from exercising executive power, whether on December 20, 1860 or January 6, 2021, is an insurrection against the Constitution.”
Great post OP. Its EXTREMELY telling. its almost as if you wanted to make a public announcement that swamp creatures don't do well being employed under ANTI-SWAMP Trump. Gotta love it! Even when you folks try to bash him you end up making him look GOOD, or maybe, I am looking at this all wrong and this was purposely done this way. Either way, please keep up that good Trump support and thanks for the great post. If I'm wrong, no worries, I left you some low hanging fruit to work with: why did Trump hire swamp creatures in the first place? I'm thinking its because he was never in politics and needed some seasoned politicians but I personally think that was a mistake and deserves to be ripped on a little bit.
