"... Rather than build party support by helping and funding fellow partisans, Trump hoards campaign money he’s raised. Rather than nurture public support by listening to citizens and translating their wishes and worries into beneficial public policies, Trump builds monuments to himself. Because he’s term-limited, he has no incentive to think about building a 2028 electoral margin mandate. As for his reputation, the nation is increasingly sick of his vulgarity, recklessness, policy failures, and incessant blame-shifting for problems he created.
"Some observers worry that, given his volcanic temperament and fragile ego, during his final two years in office a politically broke and broken Trump could become especially dangerous. He will certainly lash out in ways both predictable and not. But the American system only abides the rantings and ravings of those with political capital to burn, and in less than four weeks Trump’s red-hat movement will sink further and irrevocably into the political red." -- Tom Schaller, in the "Public Notice" Substack, on why "Trump Faces His Worst Bankruptcy Yet", that of his political capital. We're fairly sanguine about Democratic prospects in the upcoming mid-terms (vote!!!), but less so about the Malignant Fascist's reaction to defeat on a broad scale. He's foreshadowed efforts to interfere, de-legitimatize, and otherwise deny victory to Democrats in various un-Constitutional and illegal ways. But, as we've said before, the larger the Democratic wave, the harder it will be for a "Coup.2" to take place, much less succeed. Nothing is impossible, though, with this loon and his fascist followers. But we're starting to wonder if keeping up the money-making grifts will occupy more and more of his remaining time in office, fairly secure in the belief that there isn't going to be a 2/3 Senate majority for conviction should he be impeached a third time for any of his misdeeds and crimes.
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