I analyze 2015-20 as the American right making a deal with Trump, where Trump got the needs of his massive ego fulfilled (via attention, coverage, getting to be the big boy in charge) and in exchange we got a redder Supreme Court. (We got some other stuff too that Biden has now nerfed, but SCOTUS is the big one and can’t be quickly undone as soon as a Dem wins a subsequent election). But now, we don’t really need to re-up the deal, because SCOTUS is swung, and fulfilling the needs of Trump’s massive ego is not worth the trouble in exchange for what little he can realistically give us. DeSantis would fight the gender insanity fight, for example, better than Trump, as would most any GOP candidate, so it’s time to move on. Plus, Trump is just getting old, he’ll be older in ‘24 than Biden was in ‘20 when we all knew Joe was too old for the job.
I analyze 2015-20 as the American right making a deal with Trump, where Trump got the needs of his massive ego fulfilled (via attention, coverage, getting to be the big boy in charge) and in exchange we got a redder Supreme Court. (We got some other stuff too that Biden has now nerfed, but SCOTUS is the big one and can’t be quickly undone as soon as a Dem wins a subsequent election). But now, we don’t really need to re-up the deal, because SCOTUS is swung, and fulfilling the needs of Trump’s massive ego is not worth the trouble in exchange for what little he can realistically give us. DeSantis would fight the gender insanity fight, for example, better than Trump, as would most any GOP candidate, so it’s time to move on. Plus, Trump is just getting old, he’ll be older in ‘24 than Biden was in ‘20 when we all knew Joe was too old for the job.