by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It could be that it’s not so much that Trump may try to burn the country down to save his sorry ass so much that he just can’t. It could be that the dynamic surrounding Trump has changed to the point that just because he manage to almost overthrow the government, doesn’t mean he’ll ever be in a position to do it again.
I think this weekend, however, will be crucial one way or another. Trump is so unstable and unpredictable, that it could be he, out of the blue, returns to Twitter in the middle of the night and really leans into going transactional. He might say he’s not leaving Mar-a-Lago and the coppers have to come and get him out…then, wow, are we fucked.
But I’m beginning to think that things aren’t, for once, going to get that dark. I think it’ll be all be mundane if historic. The real danger comes from how, on a systemic basis, the Republican Party lives in abject fear of ding-dong Trump, even though he hasn’t been able to get people to protest for him in the real world since January 6th.
Republicans are so afraid of their base that they are going to use what hard power they have to play defense for Trump whenever they can. It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out, is all I gotta say.
