Even Trump’s most loyal lackeys are admitting it’s over for him

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Donald Trump lost by seven million votes, even after he sabotaged the Post Office to prevent more people from voting against him. His already low approval rating has since dropped even further since he incited an insurrection and got impeached for a second time. He’s disappeared from public life, and is in such a sad place that his handlers felt compelled to drive him past a tiny crowd of supporters on Monday just to cheer him up. And Trump is facing criminal cases in three jurisdictions that we know about.

Despite all of this overwhelming evidence that Trump is finished in politics and public life, we’ve seen an insistent narrative that Trump has us precisely where he wants us, and that he’s the de facto frontrunner for 2024. In reality, however, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Even Trump’s most loyal lackeys are acknowledging as much.

Trump lackey Matt Gaetz is now floating fellow Trump lackey Ron DeSantis as a 2024 presidential candidate. Let’s be clear here. DeSantis is a lightweight dummy who’s completely in over his head in Florida, and could never come close to competing in a national race. He won’t be a factor. But that’s not the story here.

The story here is that even Trump’s lackeys are now making clear that they know Trump won’t be a factor by 2024. If they thought there was even a chance that Trump would be some kind of viable 2024 candidate, they wouldn’t dare float the idea of running against him. They just gave away the whole “Trump 2024” is nothing more than a rating-driven media narrative aimed at falsely scaring those who despise Trump and falsely exciting those who like Trump.

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