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Trump's primary challengers campaign against themselves [1]

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Date: 2023-08-28

This will be a very brief piece. It is so brief that maybe it is just a comment, but here goes:

I started thinking about an observation that Tim Miller made in the Friday Bulwark podcast. He repeated it again on Morning Joe today. On the podcast, Charlie Sykes was discussing with him why Trump’s primary lead has proven so unshakeable in light of all the indictments and bookings. Miller said one of the issues is his opponents’ ridiculous statements in support of him, and in particular the whole “weaponization of the government” against Trump thingamajig. He said in effect the particularly stupid thing about this claim is the fact that nobody else is getting indicted. Mike Pence and Nikki Haley are not getting indicted. Vivek Ramaswamy is not getting indicted. It is only Trump. If Joe Biden were bending the “Deep State” to his will in a nefarious plan to eliminate his possible challengers, then why stop at Trump?

So maybe it is obvious, but I’d like to just complete the observation. The fact that this supposed “weaponization” is only directed at Trump must mean that he is a so much bigger threat to a continuance of Biden’s diabolical rule than any of the others, that he is being singled out. So by their stupidity (and I think Vivek deserves extra credit here) in carrying on about this weaponization and supposed abuse of state power, they are validating Trump’s claim that he is the only “real” opponent of Joe Biden. By their actions, they endorse this view. They endorse it to the extent that they are saying that the weaponization is so intense, that it invalidates our centuries old jury system, and hence they will vote for Trump *even* if he is convicted! Wow — if you are a MAGA, you want to vote for the guy they all raised their hands for, not for them! So most of Trump’s opponents are ensuring that they rev up all of Trump’s voters… to absolutely not vote for them. Yes, even you Nikki. You overcame whatever cred you built during the debate with a single hand motion.

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