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Make no mistake about, Donald Trump is still extremely popular and there is a good chance that he will be president again.

By on February 17, 2024 in Featured, General, Highlight

Make no mistake about, Donald Trump is still extremely popular and there is a good chance that he will be president again. What has been helping him tremendously are his trials, his future trials, and the judgements against him. With all of these things, Trump is seen as a martyr. With controversy comes publicity, and publicity brings attention, and thus a perpetual spotlight shines on him, and the political moves against him become simply a part of a reality television drama. This helps Trump’s campaign and increases his popularity. This is what makes the fact that people actually voted for DeSantis or Haley with the thought that they could actually beat Trump or become president so laughable. None of the other Republican candidates could ever come close to defeating Trump, because they don’t have a cult of personality. With persecution comes a martyr persona, and martyrs make for loyalty followings. The intense legal maneuverings and machinations, the incessant attacks on him, alongside the sententious wave of comments on social media, give Trump an aura of both fighter and martyr, and such an image is a huge asset when it comes to political struggle. The saying “make a martyr out of him” does not exist for no reason. Too many attacks on someone can have the opposite effect of their intended result. To many liberals, the media attacks and legal indictments might look as if their dream of seeing Trump behind bars will soon be a reality, but to many people, it looks like the powers that be, “the elites,” are attacking a man who merely wants to fight for fight for the American people.

This is the reason as to why Trump can still garner huge crowds:

 

 

Trump is taking his trial to his advantage (as he should, for a good strategist never lets slide an opportunity to gain publicity). As James Poniewozik wrote recently for the New York Times: “outside the courtroom, the show goes on.” Effective political action is not just people voting, but ultimately theatrics and dramatic events to move the hearts of the masses to get them to vote in the first place. People don’t follow knowledge, they follow their hearts. Victories are not won by winning minds, but hearts. As the New York Times wrote:

Mr. Trump has sought out the cameras, or brought in his own, to offer a stream-of-consciousness heave of legal complaints and re-election arguments. In the process, the former reality-TV host and current presidential candidate has turned his many legal cases into one-sided TV productions and campaign ads.

To TV producers, because Mr. Trump is a former president, a candidate and high-profile defendant, his on-camera tirades are news. But there is also a kind of transaction at work. TV news craves conflict and active visuals. There are only so many times you can show a motorcade, or reporters cooling their heels in the street. Mr. Trump’s appearances give them sound, fury and B-roll.

At the same time, Mr. Trump gets the kind of unfiltered access to the airwaves that networks were, once upon a brief time, wary of giving a candidate notorious for fabrications and conspiracy theories.
On the day a judge set a trial date for his Manhattan criminal case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star, cable news networks took him live as he called the case a Biden-campaign plot to steal the election: “This is their way of cheating this time. Last time, they had a different way.”

On Friday evening, after the civil-fraud ruling, he spoke to the cameras at his home and private club Mar-a-Lago, claiming that the case (brought by the New York attorney general) “all comes out of Biden,” accusing the judge of corruption, citing his election poll numbers and lamenting that “the migrants come in and they take over New York.”

Even during the Biden presidency, the media has been centered around Donald Trump, as if he is still the president; and the amount of videos mocking Biden is legion, as if Biden is but a prompt for laughter and mockery. As Poniewozik wrote: “outside the court, he recasts himself as the defiant fighter. Appearing on camera at his own properties, arrayed in flags, he is in control. He is vested with authority. He is, the set dressing seems to suggest, still the president.”

Trump followers, believing that the 2020 election was stolen, are going to come out even stronger during election night.

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