“We warned you almost eight goddamn years ago what he would do. We warned you that this integration with the nationalists and authoritarians was doomed.
“We warned you that letting the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, and the ripshit lunatics into the ship's bridge would lead you onto the rocks.
“We warned you that when Josh Holmes said, ‘If you can replicate his draw amongst rural, working-class voters without the insanity, you have a permanent governing majority,’ he missed the essential point.
“The insanity of Trump and his imitators is central to the MAGA movement. It’s definitional.
“And it’s poison.
“If I died tomorrow, I’d leave one political legacy, an immutable, implacable, indisputable rule: Everything Trump Touches Dies. It’s not always instant, but it is always inevitable.
“Today, intelligent, capable people are trapped with the worst, most dangerous, most unelectable elements of their party base and see the doom coming. This little ‘let’s get past Trump’ spasm is as desperate as it is ineffective.
“They’re living #ETTD, and the nightmare is far from over.
“Aside from death, there are only two scenarios: In the first case, Trump will dominate the Republican primary for 2024 and further transform the old GOP into the MAGA Troll Party, losing more and more winnable races.
“The second scenario is whispered in Washington restaurants before the coffee and dessert come. In that nightmare, Trump runs as a third-party candidate to continue his massively profitable campaign con job, making it nearly impossible for the GOP nominee to win the White House.”
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