There’s a well-established pattern since the start of the Trump era, but in the past two campaign years it’s more condensed, and even more dangerous. Donald Trump sees a political victory, and Democrats follow it in short order with an attack, either political, legal, or violent in nature.
Immediately after this week’s debate — in which Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance so thoroughly vanquished Tim Walz, simultaneously humiliating all of the Kamala Harris campaign’s supporters in the national news media — the countdown began. Our biggest problem is that we don’t know exactly how much time is on the clock.
A brief and incomplete timeline of events includes:
— Trump securing the Republican nomination in 2016, at which point Democrats, the media, and their partners in the Washington intelligence community began fabricating a close link between Trump and Russia, thereby taking out his politically astute campaign manager Paul Manafort.
— Trump winning the election, after which his opponents demanded a special counsel that would hunt for crimes that might lead to removing him from office.
— Trump presiding over widespread economic prosperity, reduced international conflict, and the reassertion of America’s sovereignty and leadership of the Free World. Democrats responded by impeaching the president over a phone call concerning corruption in one of the most indisputably corrupt nations in Eastern Europe.
— Trump coasting toward reelection, which Democrats answered with a hysterical pandemic disinformation campaign, reconfigured swing-state voting rules, and violent hyped-up race riots.
When Trump was still standing and widely expected
