If Trump is waning, what are his options?

B. Jay Cooper

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Dec 7, 2022

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As his “brand” starts to diminish, there are three choices left for former President Donald J. Trump:

1) Maintain his current posture that he is a candidate for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination and see if he can win (doubtful)

2) Decide that the way to take over the country is to convince his followers that they and he have been wronged and that the Constitution must be done away with and then wage a full-blown insurrection in an effort to take the country by force (unlikely and will not succeed)

3) Decide to withdraw from his decision to run for president (more to come)

Each option is fraught with huge downsides for Trump.

To take them one by one:

First, Trump’s path to the nomination is a possibility if enough candidates join the race to oppose him and he keeps a strangle-hold on his base. With enough candidates in the race, his 20 to 30…