Since he can still run for office and become president while in prison, is this actually going to do anything to stop him from being president? Obviously it’s not gonna sway anyone who’s gonna vote for him, so is there any actual way this keeps him from office, or at least has some positive effect for us? I wanna join the celebration about this, but I don’t see any way it actually leads to a good outcome, just more deeply convince those for or against him that they’re right, maybe at best a few people on the fence about voting for Biden will be convinced by this. It just feels like theatrics, something to grab people’s attention that will never have any real effect on Trump or his campaign
Haha this is trivially true because if they’re gonna vote for him they won’t be swayed! And if they won’t be swayed they’ll vote for him!
On the other hand, it will sway those who were going to vote for him but are not going to now that he’s a felon. There will be some of those. Those who will be swayed, will be swayed!
Trump is all about theatrics isn’t he? But this conviction is a fact, not theater. This loss was not in the court of public opinion, but in a court of law. He can’t buy his way out of this. He can’t both-sides this.
I don’t think there’s any way this comes out better for Trump. Law and order types will have to work hard to justify rallying behind a felon. Business types too. Like it or not the word felon has a stigma to it, and Trump is tainted by that from now on.