It seems the political left hasn’t learned the lessons it should have in helping elect Donald Trump to a second term as president.
In a strategy to prevent him from becoming the 2024 Republican nominee for president, Democrats and their counterparts in academia, the national media and Hollywood treated him as if he were the president, excoriating everything he did and said, and throwing their arsenal of lawfare at him.
What happened?
Every time Trump was indicted for a crime that some experts said would not have been brought if it were any other person, he became more popular. With each mention in the news about a trial date, his supporters hugged him a little tighter, and undoubtedly a few more voters became sympathetic to his cause.
By the time 2024 came around, he had a handful of complaints weighing against him and a whole lot of sympathy. In November, with the addition of two assassination attempts under his belt to broaden the martyr image, that sympathy translated into popular and Electoral College votes, and he became the 47th president of the United States.