So it’s another Sunday afternoon and watching the news can be unnerving to say the least. We can hold our collective breath and pray for the suffering people on all sides in Gaza while we hope that WW3 does not erupt. Or, we can watch the now embarrassing clown show that the Republican party has become while their malignant incompetency paralyzes our national government.
There are troubling headlines these days to be sure, however there are some headlines that are notable in their absence. Donald Trump is badly losing ground almost every one of the myriad courts where he faces multiple charges and’or indictments. From New York civil courts to Washington DC, to Georgia, judges are slapping down motions to dismiss, imposing gag orders, flipping key witnesses, fining his lawyers, and telling him directly to quiet down and behave himself while sitting in the courtroom.
(Ok- the exception here is of course Judge Cannon in Florida, but other than that there has been a flood of adverse decisions for Team Trump. Judge Cannon is increasingly an outlier in the justice system.)
Notice what we are NOT seeing or hearing about? Not a damn thing from his supposed “Masses of followers” who would “NEVER stand for watching their hero suffer such gravely unfair political prosecutions!” Didn’t Lyndsey Graham promise us that prosecuting Donald Trump would lead to massive civil unrest all over the nation?? Not seeing that Lyndsey.
Sure there are the keyboard warriors on right wing websites, TV and radio repeating the now tired almost de riguer yowling but there is very little energy behind any of that. Do we see mass protests outside the NY courtrooms where he is putting in appearances? Are the people in Georgia storming the Fulton County courthouse?? Nope...in fact we don’t even see small demonstrations. Ya know, for someone that supposedly “Won” the last election and claims to command 80 million followers, the public reaction to his legal troubles is really quite muted and even tame.
Yes- there ARE individuals making terrible threats of retaliation and I do not mean to imply that those are not serious and dangerous, however my point is that there is certainly no sign at all that that his support is energized or strong enough to bring people out to the streets to “Take our country back!” or any of that other nonsense.
The MAGA “Crowd” is proving to be a paper tiger that will be dangerous in small doses if unbalanced “Lone wolf” types try to act out, but from here it looks like the public at large is just plain tired of the Trump nonsense. Now that larger events have pushed him off of the main headlines, very little energy remains at all to support him in any kind of meaningful way other that stubbornly insisting that they will vote for him...again. I don’t like that they will do that...but I can live with them voting as they please if they behave like decent citizens.