The Chicken Littles seem to be over their malaise and are back to sowing Trump Terror. This isn't about T2, which is on the launching pad, but the prospect of T3.
Wait...what?
Yep. They're scared of a T3 and they're touting the plan that makes this possible. It is as if without Trump to tear down they'd have no reason to live. Is this really possible and just what is this plan?
Well, it is possible, but highly improbable, which will become obvious when you consider the plan. The plan is simple in design. Trump runs as Veep with someone else topping the ticket, they win, and upon inauguration the new Prez resigns elevating Trump to the oval office.
This is perfectly legal, and as the left is about to learn, it is because words matter. See, the constitution prevents someone from being elected more than two times to the presidency. It does not place a limit on the number of times someone can serve in that office. The left, notorious for word salad and semantic gymnastics will contend that somehow, the word elected subsumes the meaning of the word serve. Might be true in their partisan minds but not in a court of law, primarily because of legal precedence. Genuflect to stare decisis. The precedent is priceless because it is Joe Biden. See, Papa Joe ran, and was elected, to the US Senate when he was 29 years old, too young to serve, but between being elected and sworn in, he turned 30 years old, old enough to serve. Clearly there is an undeniable constitutional distinction between elected and serve, a distinction that cuts both ways.
So, it is technically possible for Trump to serve a third term but it is practically impossible. For so many reasons.
It requires that Trump be on a ticket that can win, one where top of ticket can overcome what is likely to be significant Trump Fatigue in the electorate. That's one hell of a candidate.
Such a candidate who can carry that burden across the finish line will inevitably be equipped with an enormous ego. Hell, losers are blessed with egos that would overflow the Benz. Even Biden now thinks he should not have dropped out with his ego telling him he could have snatched victory from the jaws of dementia. Does anyone with any political acumen really believe there exists a politician, were they to win the White House, that would willingly relinquish the presidency?
Another political reality is there are Republicans who feign loyalty (for their own benefit) but secretly look forward to a post-Trump political landscape. Everyone knows politicians are windsocks interested in themselves, their wealth, their power, and little else.
So yeah, the fear-mongers have identified a legitimate path to T3, but only an idiot can be fooled into taking it seriously.
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