Trump separated himself from the pack in 2016 by campaigning on building the wall, deporting illegals, draining the swamp, and locking up Hillary.
If he tries running on the same or similar issues this time around, the stench of bullshit will be too much to ignore except for his most devoted followers.
IMO, he'll probably run on "I'm not Biden," and I'm sure with how bad Biden is, he'll win just off of that.
The sad part is, this will be another wasted election to try and get an actual change candidate who won't sell out as much. Too bad Rand Paul has a terrible sense of what grassroots Republican voters want. Last time around, he was pandering to try in bring in more black voters. Fucking eh, what a mess.
I'd been thinking for at least two years that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell Trump would run again or get reelected, and that the Democrats were being paranoid over nothing.
Only just occurred to me after that announcement that maybe the Democrats knew that and were intentionally baiting him into running, for some larger objective in-mind.
Likely something like a major false flag operation so they can truly advance a campaign against would-be "dissidents" and "treacherous rebels".
If I recall, in Timothy Zahn's EU books, there was a backstory where Palpatine had deliberately incited and sort of orchestrated the Rebel Alliance into forming a large rebellion, with the intent to crush all potential threats in a single crushing blow, and largely eliminate any potential opposition.