Trump, an easily defeatable buffoon in 2016 and 2024
He wasn’t easily defeatable.
He was a wealthy, popular, fascist candidate running with the wind at his back thanks to his wealth, fascist friends in media, banking, and tech.
Trump beat a litany of professional politicians in his own party. Then he ran neck and neck with the liberal challenger three times, because he was actually very savvy and very well-connected and not easy to beat at all.
Democrats treated him like a joke twice and lost both times. They took him seriously once and barely eeked out a win in a wave year.
Platner will lose.
For all Platner’s sins, he appears to be both popular and exactly as fascist as Americans like to see in a politician.
Now the only question is whether he can beat Collins’s money machine.
He wasn’t easily defeatable.
He was a wealthy, popular, fascist candidate running with the wind at his back thanks to his wealth, fascist friends in media, banking, and tech.
Trump beat a litany of professional politicians in his own party. Then he ran neck and neck with the liberal challenger three times, because he was actually very savvy and very well-connected and not easy to beat at all.
Democrats treated him like a joke twice and lost both times. They took him seriously once and barely eeked out a win in a wave year.
For all Platner’s sins, he appears to be both popular and exactly as fascist as Americans like to see in a politician.
Now the only question is whether he can beat Collins’s money machine.