Summary
Donald Trump falsely linked the New Orleans truck attack, carried out by U.S. Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, to immigration, despite authorities confirming no connection to the border.
Trump’s claims followed a retracted Fox News report and contradicted FBI findings that Jabbar, a U.S. citizen, acted alone in what is being investigated as terrorism.
Trump doubled down on Truth Social, blaming Biden’s border policies and proclaiming, “Trump was right about everything.”
An ISIS flag was found on the vehicle, with the FBI probing potential ties to terrorist organizations.
My hot take: When Trump kicks the bucket, the MAGA movement dies with him. JD Vance sure as hell isn’t going to inspire the faithful the way Trump did. With a lack of political capital, and because he’s so desperate to be liked, Vance would probably have to act more like a “traditional” Republican, if that even means anything anymore.
If Trump gets those tariffs the American people will turn on conservatives when it spikes prices. Inflation killed Harris, it can do the same to Trump. If anything, the fastest way for MAGA to die is for them to fight over power and squander four years with infighting and suicidal policy calls. Factor in razor-thin house/senate margins and even a competent admin would have trouble, let alone Elon and Trump.
My hope is that Vance suffers the same fate Hillary did when he tries to hold Trump’s coalition together.
Agreed though that won’t be the first step. They’ll go after “leftists” and immigrants first which will tank the economy further and result in more brain drain.
Will it matter at that point? President Vance almost certainly means full steam ahead for ALL of Project 2025.
This hope is what keeps me going
Don’t underestimate capital’s ability, through owned press and social media, to create the next Trump. The incentive is there: although the man himself, with his incredible ego, would likely reject any form of successor, the political phenomenon he has spearheaded, with its seemingly boundless capacity to divide and rule and weaken checks and balances, benefits billionaires too much for them to just let it fade into history. In any case, the social soil that has been such fertile ground for Trump will not just disappear when he dies, and the party has been irreversibly remade, with Republicans either falling in line or getting pushed aside. I wish the nightmare he represents would die with him, but I doubt it will.
Their work is basically what manifested donvict. If it wasn’t for the Hate Radio and Faux News Cinematic Universe, things like the teabaggers, Palin, and then, later, donvict, would not have been possible. This stuff got incrementally racheted up year over year, decade after decade getting us to where we are…
Now that would be nice!