“Donald Trump’s biggest crime was winning the 2016 election.”
He didn’t.
“Didn’t he know the election belonged to Hillary Clinton,”
She did.
“How dare he win the election on his very first try?”
It was his second. The first was 2000.
“He achieved what many career politicians would die and sell their souls multiple times for”
And now he is a career politician whose soul’s existence is negligible.
“How dare he win that election with a shoestring budget”
No. He said he was doing it on his own money, then accepted sponsors like any other candidate anyway.
“How dare he win… by having a simple, direct message; recognizing heartland voters’ economic woes; and campaigning in that retail-politics way of his?”
And then forgetting all of what he promised.
“How dare he lie and exaggerate in that crude, undisciplined way of his?”
I have no argument with that statement.
“How dare he care about ordinary American workers in the Rust Belt?”
He cares about their votes…
“Thanks to Orange Man, we now have to cater to the very people… who cling bitterly to their God, guns, and religion.”
All Republicans in the last four decades have kowtowed to that demographic.
“And for God’s sake, doesn’t he know that caring about one’s nation and its citizens is passé? It’s all global now! Pretend-caring in a vague, generalized, feel-good way about global citizens while getting richer off their cheap labor is the fashion now.”
Yes, he does know that actually. Remember the ‘Make America Great Again’ hats were made in China.
“For all his flaws, Trump is the best thing to have happened to our ossified, corrupt national politics.”
You never know. Sometimes you meet someone who says “Having my house burn down/my car being wrecked/being sent to prison was the best thing that could have happened to me.” Time will tell.
“For the crime of winning the 2016 election, the elites have pinned all manner of crimes on Trump, hoping something will stick.”
He’s committed all manner of crimes but the fundies will still support him because he’ll nominate Supreme Court wackos who’ll try to get abortion banned. Really, that’s it.