Other Views: The revolution is up to Donald Trump
“Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda will be codified as his party’s own. He has a year or more to decide whether he wishes to play kingmaker among would-be Republican congressional and presidential candidates or run himself for a second term. ... By then there is some chance that the country will have been turned off by a hard-left shift by Joe Biden, surrogate to the Alexandria OcasioCortez wing of his party. Such extremism caused Democrats to lose House seats in 2020. (But) Trump may be forced to choose within days whether he wishes to emulate Andrew Jackson, the aggrieved victim of the crooked bargain of 1824 that denied him victory in that year’s presidential election. Jackson stormed back in 1828 to an overwhelming populist victory fueled by a righteously aggrieved following. Otherwise, Trump would risk being reduced to the status of sore presidential losers like Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.”
Maggie Severns, Politico:
“In the coming months, Trump could use money from his new PAC, called Save America, to travel the country and stage rallies, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. He could promote candidates who were loyal to him and make donations to their campaigns. And, if he wanted to, he could place his family members and former administration officials on payroll, and continue to host lavish events at his properties without tripping up campaign finance law.”
Max Boot, Washington Post:
“The Trump revolution is now devouring its own children. The president is attacking supporters such as Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona and Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia because they will not toss out the election results in their states. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, another loyal Republican, needs bodyguards because of all the death threats he and his family are getting. ... Trump claims to be an expert on winning. His actual area of expertise is how to profit from losing. ... He has now figured out how to monetize assaults on our democracy. He will keep going at least until 2024, and then either regain the Republican nomination for himself or hand it off to a favored sycophant.”