No way this ends well for Donald Trump
Right now Donald Trump is risking his life, and the lives of a lot of people around him. He’s in the White House when he should be in the hospital. He’s relying on rage inducing steroids to remain upright while he’s severely ill, and if he relies on them too long, they’ll kill him.
And what is Trump doing all of this for? If there’s any strategy here at all, it’s that he’s so afraid of losing the election and going to prison, he’s willing to risk keeling over just to get back in control of his failing presidency and failing campaign. But what exactly does he think he’s taking control of at this point?
New national polls released since Trump’s debate meltdown and coronavirus hospital debacle suggest that he may now be losing nationwide by as much as 16 points (CNN) or even 21 points (Boston Herald). Those numbers are on the high end of his polling averages, but the point to a landscape where there’s nothing Trump can do to win, no matter how many steroids he gulfs down, or how much he obsesses over his campaign.
Of course no one wins an election without putting in the work on things like voter turnout and campaign volunteering. But if we take care of business, Trump doesn’t have a path to victory, or even to coming close enough to try to cheat. So he can either lose and go to prison, or just resign now and blame it on illness and hope the jury takes pity on him, or if he pushes himself too hard he could end up dropping over dead before he even gets to trial. No way this ends well for Trump, so long as we continue to put in the work required to finish him off.
