Well, well, well… it seems that, despite the best efforts of the Establishment GOP/Uniparty/Boomercons, GEOTUS Donald J. Trump can’t be beaten in a fair fight.  At least, he won the Iowa caucuses, and will likely sweep the rest of the primaries as he marches towards the Republican nomination.

What scares the powers-that-be is that Trump still wields tremendous influence.  The plethora of headlines screaming that Trump is no longer a viable candidate are the desperate cries of an elite who hope that if they say it enough, it will become true.  Their black magic and dark incantations hold no power over the righteous.

Will the GOP attempt to invalidate a Trump nomination?  Perhaps.  But even a Trump bogged down in bogus legal attacks would be hard to toss from the nominating convention if he enters that convention with the vast majority of delegates pledged to him.  If the Republican Party attempted to dislodge Trump at that point, it would convincingly demonstrate just how disconnected the GOP’s leadership is from the voters.  If the Republican Party wants to destroy itself, it would toss Trump and rewrite the rules to allow Nikki Haley or the like to become the nominee.  The vast majority of Republican voters would denounce the outcome and vote for Trump as an independent candidate—and never trust the GOP again.

The only analogous moment I can immediately conjure up is the 1912 Republican convention, when former President Theodore Roosevelt narrowly lost his bid to challenge incumbent President William Howard Taft for the nomination.  TR split Republicans by running as a Bull Moose Progressive—and became the most successful third-party candidate in history.  Unfortunately, his splitting assured victory for Democrat Woodrow Wilson, a president whose election spelled disaster for the nation and, perhaps, the world.

Would that happen in 2024?  Maybe.  I don’t doubt that Trump would run as an independent—even a write-in—candidate if the GOP booted him from the ballot.  Even as a write-in, he’d sweep multiple States—maybe even enough to win.  At that point, though, it would be the GOP, not Trump, that would be tossing the election back to Biden the Usurper.  And come 2028, no conservative would engage in the Republican primaries, but would instead get fully behind whatever third-party Trump would create.

But this prognosticating is all speculation.  When the votes are tallied, I doubt even the National Republican Party is stupid enough to block Trump’s nomination.  The fallout would be too great for them, and delivering another term to Biden the Usurper on a silver platter might finally convince everyday Republicans that our party does not have our best interests at heart.

It’s a shame.  I used to love the Republican Party.  Now I see it for what it is:  a mewling, pathetic shadow of the Democratic Party.  Trump didn’t ruin the Republican Party; he saved it from itself.  Let’s see if it tries to commit suicide again.