My View
My view is that Trump is complicit with the DNC and installed as a 'bad cop' that they can continue to vilify but never catch. It creates hate on the liberal side and support on the GOP side. It locks up the presidency so anyone on the DNC side can run against Trump and it is expected that a win is reasonable.
Before Trump took office, I realized that there were two possibilities:
1) That he was an outsider and was going to clean up DC.
2) that he was a plant and nothing would happen.
Trump had many opportunities to take down the corruption in DC. Many Repbulican voters will give the excuse that everyone was against him and: “how could he ever prevail against such rampant corruption?”. As head of the Executive branch there were many tools at his disposal and anyone questioning them would be taken down along with the other corrupt politicians, but he never used any of them.
State of the Union "I have issued arrest warrants for the following people:".
He had Executive orders.
He had Grand Jury's.
He had control of the military and secret service.
He could replace the heads of CIA, FBI, etc.
All of this corruption that was supposedly against him from day one, would have also been against him in the primary's. We watched Bernie, one of the most popular for two election cycles get replaced twice with worse candidates that the people didn't want. We watched Tulsi Gabbard get eliminated based on 'media polls' that were fixed and debates that banned her despite the enormous google search activity after the first debate. Despite this, we are supposed to believe that Trump was so clever he got past all of this control to become president then not do anything but be a punching bag for the next 4 years? Heck, they impeached Trump for Biden’s crimes in Ukraine. After all the attacks on Trump, they still can't make is so he is banned from the ballot (all the while looking like they are trying but never successful). It is the dog chasing the car that never truly wants to catch it. If they did catch Trump, then who would they run against next year?
The term Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a label for the irrational hate for Trump. Believe me I understand the rage. I can’t stand the guy either. The irrational part comes in when people think emotionally and do whatever is the opposite of what they tell you Trump wants. “Make America Great Again” is one example. Rather than change what the phrase means and have a different ‘great America’ in their vision, people protest against the phrase. Ending wars or Becoming friends with Russia? Don’t want that, those are things Trump wants.
TDS exists on the GOP side as well. Trump has been attacked by the left so many times for things that he was on the right side of and Impeachments/Indictments for things he should not have been attacked for. The Russia Investigation took 3 years where it was promised that Trump would be in prison any day now. “If these allegations are true” the media would start, to be followed by an hour of false statements based on the ‘if true’ disclaimer. This ended with nothing found and most of the earlier claims were disproved. The Republicans watched as these baseless claims continued. Many believe that he was cheated out of an election on Jan 6th. It is an election that was all mail-in and the chain of custody was abandoned so there is no way to ever know for sure who the winner was. Republican voters feel for Trump and want a rematch. Trump was what Bernie is to the left. An outsider trying to make a difference against all odds.
The Republican voters watch as Biden continues the Ukraine war with stories of the corruption in Ukraine (child trafficking, money laundering, biolabs, etc) and a strong hate for Biden on the right is created.
So what we have is Hate for Trump on the left and much support on the right. We have the left loving Biden just because he isn’t Trump. The left accepts endless war, economic ruin and forfeiture of rights (speech, search, guns, etc), just because it isn’t Trump. People on both sides thinking only emotionally and not realizing that they are fooled by their ‘leaders’ as much as the ‘other side’ is fooled (which they can see).
What we need is two new candidates. Everyone will win and we won’t repeat that last 8 years. We have RFK Jr. that currently has a strong support of the people on both sides. He is all about truth and has been attacked by of all things, the House Committee on Censorship who asked that he be silenced as a key speaker. We also have Vivik Ramaswamey on the right that is asking a lot of the right questions about things we are not supposed to talk about. Both are being attacked by mainstream media as people instead of debating the issues. The DNC is refusing to allow Biden to debate RFK Jr. and they have basically given Biden the nomination without a voice of the people. From what I see today, both of these candidates would be welcomed by both parties as they represent truth, not political parties. The left would be happy with Vivik and the right happy with RFK Jr.
Get your popcorn, it is all just theater!
Watch out RFK jr is PRO ABORTION ! Due to an enormous amount of catastrophic missteps by trump & his recent accommodation of some abortion, at least verbally [if one can believe anyone who is on the 3rd? marriage]...we are leaning towards Vivek. Thanks tom.