Donald Quixote took the occasion of the first release of the Twitter Files to once again mount his horse in pursuit of his Impossible Dream of either being installed as President or at the very least, getting a 2020 do-over.
Señor Quixote, the Man of La Mar-a-Lago went on Truth Social, lance in hand, to tilt at windmills:
Yes, well. That isn’t at all insane, is it?
Donald Quixote charging headlong at our Constitution wasn’t on my bingo card.
Of course, it’s absolute lunacy and Donald Quixote’s lance won’t come within a mile of unseating our Constitution.
Though, with ludicrous remarks like this, Donald Trump will easily unseat Hillary Clinton to become the World’s Biggest Sore Loser.
The revelations from Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files thread did not in any way, shape, manner, or form support the idea of blowing up our entire Constitutional Republic all so Donald can return to the White House.
And while he might defeat Hillary for the title of World’s Biggest Sore Loser, if Trump keeps this nonsense up, he’ll be easy to defeat in the 2024 Republican primary.
The fact is, Donald Quixote isn’t so much tilting at windmills as he is burning them to the ground.
Trump has grown so fixated on the 2020 election that he is willing to set fire to every windmill and blow up every bridge in his quest for payback.
At this point, the Democrats and the media won’t have to lift a finger to destroy Donald Trump. All they have to do is stay out of the way while he provides them with all the ammunition they need to do it.
In a Twitter thread yesterday, Dave Reaboi made this astute observation:
Why did the Dems co-opt “democracy,” emptying the word of its meaning and replacing the definition to suit their ends? Because it’s something Americans have long had a positive association with. It’s branding.
The Constitution is also something Americans love; even those who want to change it are smart enough to try to co-opt it, or speak about it reverentially. For almost a century, even despotic regimes globally felt they needed to have a constitution because it conferred legitimacy.
Allowing your enemies to paint you—and truthfully!! in your own words!!—as a proponent of ditching the Constitution isn’t just an insanely bad messaging problem. It’s like you’re trying really hard to alienate as many normal, sane people as possible.
In short, much like the “My Dinner with Anti-Semites” incident, Donald Quixote once again stepped on his dick.
On Saturday, responding to the release of Part 1 of the Twitter Files, Jesse Kelly tweeted:
The efforts to keep Donald Trump from being elected, remove him once he was elected, and prevent him from being elected again have done more to damage this country than anything in American history.
There is not a single thing about that statement with which I disagree.
And when someone replied to Jesse’s tweet, asking if he agreed with Trump’s outlandish Truth Social post, Jesse had this to say:
No. That’s insane. It’s also going to cost him the primary if he keeps it up. That doesn’t change the fact that the efforts to remove him have accelerated the decline of America unlike anything else. Both can be true.
And that is precisely the point.
You can acknowledge that the media, Big Tech, the Democrat Party, and even the FBI colluded to destroy Donald Trump while at the same time acknowledging that Donald Trump is damaging himself by spending the last two years perseverating on his defeat and indulging in every kooky conspiracy theory that comes over the transom.
Worse still, his obsession hasn’t just damaged him. That’s the problem.
His fixation has damaged the country.
Donald Quixote’s Stolen Election obsession led to Republicans losing the Senate in the 2021 Georgia runoffs, hundreds of ordinary citizens getting arrested and jailed over a stupid riot, a two-year-long show trial in the House, an entire media and Democrat campaign to smear ordinary Americans as “domestic terrorists,” and a Midterm Red Wave election becoming a Red Dribble.
In a nutshell, his obsession handed the Democrats, Big Tech, and the media even more ammunition in their ongoing effort to silence and destroy their political opposition.
At this point, I can’t help but ask, if Donald Trump wanted to make sure the Democrats hold onto power, what would he be doing differently?
The man just announced his 2024 campaign not even three weeks ago, and rather than focusing on the issues that matter to voters, he’s spending all his time and energy tilting at windmills while hemorrhaging supporters and dragging down the rest of the Republican Party.
Judging by his behavior since his official announcement, I’m beginning to suspect that Donald Trump doesn’t really want to run for president again.
At the rate he’s going, by the time we get to the Iowa Caucus, even a knob like Larry Hogan will do better than Donald Quixote.
There won’t be any need for a super-secret grand RINO masterplan by Paul Ryan and billionaire donors to take Trump out of the running.
Why should they bother when Trump seems hell-bent on taking himself out one unhinged rant at a time?