The cases against him are obvious hokum, but since when has that mattered? If the government wants to destroy you, it will succeed. Now, if you're lucky, rich and young - you might be able to spend 20 years trying to clear you name, and then (and even that has only occurred in non-political cases) belatedly succeed. Trump does not have that sort of time - he's old and morbidly obese.
There is a second cope that people will see through the fact that these cases are hokum - as little as that would help him. While that is not impossible (and Trump has defied political gravity many times before), there is an equal - if not greater - possibility that enough people will be swayed by the indictments against him. "I'm voting for the guy who doesn't have 79 indictments against him" is a reasonable statement if you live in a country with a rule of law and isonomia, which many people imagine they live in.
There is a silver lining. The first generation of reformer never succeeds - think the Gracchi brothers - and often comes to grief. The regime has here put itself in a lose-lose position. Imagine if they get what they want, and Trump is convicted and is sent to prison until he dies. They still lose, because they lose the fig-leaf of republican legitimacy, and had to behave in openly banana republican ways - permanently alienating the 30-40% of die-hard Trump supporters. It does not matter, you say, but it does - that's why both the regime and even openly autocratic states try to retain legitimacy for their power and their elections.
If they lose, and Trump is re-elected, it's more obvious why they will lose. This is a man they could have easily won over with a little bit of flattery and just by not being obnoxious (cf. Lindsey Graham and Mike Pompeo). Instead, they have made him lust for their blood, and God help them if he ever is re-elected. Here too they are in a lose-lose - either he will use the powers of the presidency to crush them, or the impotence of the presidency itself will be exposed. Both rather undesirable situations for the regime. Which is why I think they've gone to such desperate measures, and may even resort to assassination as happened to the Gracchi - and they'd get the same result in sowing the seeds of their own destruction just as the Optimates did.
None of this is to suggest "giving up", because I think everyone has an obligation to fight for what is right regardless of the circumstances.
I actually don't know that he'll be assassinated.
He absolutely could be if the elites are stupid enough to believe their own narratives that MAGA is not a populist movement, but is just a personality cult.
However, that would fly in the face of every bit of global evidence they have. Disparaging Trump is what I think they will try to do, or co-opting Trump is the other alternative. They're doing everything in their power to distract him and make him seem repellent, but it's the only soft strategy they seem to be willing to take. I'd expect more false flag attacks more than anything.
It's shocking to me that this wasn't done. There is something deeply personal about the hatred for him. Trump is the most obvious possible man to persuade. Frankly, I think he was probably shocked just how long, hard, and hungrily Mike Pompeo was willing to eat out his ass, only to betray him anyway. Shows the real character of the people around him. He's probably never dealt with someone who's that much of an influence whore and a political cunt. All that being said, everybody knows how to bring Trump onto their side. It's not hard. They do it every day. But he just absolutely makes these elites lose their shit. The fact that he ate steak with ketchup set them off about as bad as anything else they ever attacked him on. There's something about his blue-collar-like nature that just drives them crazy. Eating McDonalds, steak with ketchup, ineloquent speech, no political career, a "new money" family, a brash attitude. It drives them fucking mental.
The Blairites (and Fabians) are starting to see the problem, but the rest of the globalists... I just don't know. They're as unpredictable and unstable as Antifa. They really seem to be fucking losing it.
The aristocracy never ended and the nobles hate the peasants just as much as they always did.
I don't agree. When you look through history, it's the nobles and peasants that get along.
It's actually the nobles and the barons that can't deal with each other. To go back to the original Feudal system. It was the "Villeins" that everybody hated. They owned nothing, and were perpetually in service to the Lord. The Lord saw them as a class of occasionally productive bureaucrats who lived at his expense, but could always threaten to overthrow him. The peasants hated them because they were supremacist and oppressive merely based on social class alone. They sucked so much that it's where we get the term "villain" from.
It's that upper-middle class intelligentsia that can't co-exist with reality. The king and the peasants are normally fine with each other unless the king does something exceptionally retarded.
So medieval HR basically?
Yup