The GOP 2024 Campaign Strategy: To Delegitimize the American Judicial System
Siem Reap, June 2nd, 2024
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There are no two ways for the GOP to get out of their current precarious predicament. There is only one option left to them. We all know that they cannot publicly admit that the 34-count conviction of their presidential candidate is legitimate, so, from now on, you will hear them argue by all possible farfetched means that the American Judicial System is rigged and invalid and that, therefore, Trump’s conviction was only a sham and just the direct consequence of the Democrats’ illegal, biased, anti-Trump maneuvering.

In their twisted view, Trump has not been convicted because he is guilty. He was convicted because the whole American legal apparatus is rigged against him. Not just some judges and some prosecutors, but all those day-to-day, common American citizens that serve as jurors too. The Republicans’ hypnotic, irrational, cult-like fealty to Trump is such that they are willing to delegitimize in the deepest sense possible the 248-year-old legal system that, as imperfect as it may be, has kept the United States together and our domestic sociopolitical environment in relative harmony for long periods of time.

All or nothing. That is their motto. Either they put their pernicious, indecent, convicted-felon false-messiah in power again, or the whole country can go to hell. Trump will not win in November but, for the Republicans, that is only going to be one more reason to stand firm by his side and affirm that the whole American Democratic System is rigged against him. Nothing that may ever happen in the American political landscape that does not praise and exalt their false-messiah can ever be acceptable for the MAGA hordes.

And if standing firm, at all cost for Trump, entails the destruction of the United States as we know it, well, so be it. All or nothing. That is their motto. January 6, 2021, was just a rehearsal. Just check out how some leading characters of the extreme-right-wing militias go around on the Internet recruiting and organizing MAGA fellow-travelers for the next insurrection, which quite likely will be an armed one. So, let’s please not fool ourselves about this anymore.

These are no longer the Reagan years. The days when the Republican Party supposedly stood for law and order in America are long dead and gone. Finished. For the rest of the year, expect the Republican campaign strategy to be to delegitimize by all possible means the American Judicial and Democratic Systems.

Regarding the days following the November 5th elections, the whole situation is a toss, but it would be dumb not to get ready for those days. Trump will most surely be defeated at the ballot box and, as a result, all hell might just break loose in a number of hotspots in the country. Whatever comes our way, however, let’s remain optimistic, but quite aware, cautious, and ready too.

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