Trump is now a convicted felon.
Will this stop conservatives from voting for him? The hell it will. I've already seen radical right wing sites declaring this makes him a martyr, though to what God I cannot imagine. The Great Golden Trump Idol, I suppose.
My kid asked me how Trump could continue to run for president even if he's a convicted felon. "I thought you couldn't vote if you were a felon. Or is that just to suppress the black vote?"
Famously, Eugene Debs ran for president from actual prison in 1920 -- he'd been convicted of "sedition." So a little thing like a conviction on 34 counts of fraud won't stop Trump.
Here's what Trump had to say:
“This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt,” he said. “The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people, and they know what happened here.”
I think that buying into the heads-he-wins, tails-he-wins rhetoric is a way of making Trump into something bigger and stronger than he actually is. What the far right wants to do is convince everyone that Trump is some sort of magical creature who is beyond losing. But he is not. Not in the courts, not in the most recent election, and not as a human being.
ReplyDeleteI also think that one thing that Trump does represent, for Republicans and for the rest of us, is an integrity test. Do people have enough integrity to say, "not Trump"? This was true before the verdict and is still true now.
*Do* they have enough integrity, though?
ReplyDeleteI mean, honestly, if they had integrity, would they have voted for him in the first place? Their entire worldview is built on lies, and they seem fine with that, so long as they can keep hating brown people, and LGBTQ people, and immigrants, and so on.