Someone could have produced a bipartisan immigration reform bill where Trump got his "wall" and the lefties got a bunch of amnesty concessions or imrpovement of existing rules that Trump was using (ironically many from obama admin) to punish the shit out of illegals with. And he could have been roped into signing off on it even with concessions, but "they" were never going
to allow him to do that because it would allow him to claim some sort of accomplishment. (especially considering that every immigration reform thing since Reagan basically failed)
I'm not... IMHO that was his biggest f***ups. He needed to go 100% off beltway for it and he didnt, he sucked for "safe, adviser driven" picks instead of outsiders. He trusted people too
much. Ironically in that one space, he was not nearly arrogant enough. And also didnt flush the toilet enough from the prior administration. He needed to bring in outsiders and get them to act as hatchet men/women for the first year or so at least to flush that shit out, and he failed doing that, and ultimately paid the price on the back end. (if the recent news with the Bill Barr knowledge fo the laptop thing wasnt anything more damning, then I dont know what is).
ETA: people will talk about the mean tweets and his mouth and this and that. But if ever actually ran again in a primary you know what other GOP types would hammer him on? Fauci. And thats the one thing he can't get away from. That and this vaxx promo BS he was pushing, thats not going to sell well, especially given that shit as days go by has more and more "poison" indicators attached to it. It didnt help that Trump couldn't even overrule him. It made him look feckless. He could have said "Masks on airplanes, no we're not doing that. We're going to leave it up to the airlines to decide, sorry doctor"
Dems were dug in, especially on the wall. The only way they’d give the wall would be complete amnesty for all illegals and immediate citizenship. Dems don’t really want a lot of things passed, they want to keep the issue to rally their lunatic base every 4 years. Dems have completely misjudged immigration. They moronically believe all Hispanics want open borders. That’s typical dem racism and also very wrong. Hispanic communities are the ones flooded with these low skill illegals and their kids schools are flooded with illegal kids sucking up resources their kids should get. Dems are looking extremely poor with Hispanics in many areas, especially Texas and Florida. They’re going to be very surprised in November but they’re stupid so they’ll continue the policies which are driving voters away and say ‘our policies are great, we did explain them to the rubes well enough’
Some ot the establishment types, preibus, spicer etc were bad fits but remember it was trump who brought in amarosa, scaramuchi, etc. some of the people trump himself picked were horrendous.
A lot of why Trump won in 16 was he ran against Hillary who is one of the worst candidates in history. Both Hillary and trump had terrible favorable ratings. If you look at real clear politics poling tracker, even with as bad as biden has been, in a hypothetical ‘24 matchup, they’re in a dead heat.
I think DeSantis beats trump in the primaries they both run and as you say, fauci is a big anchor for trump. Trump was a big lockdown proponent for a long time. I remember the GA governor lifted restrictions, trump attacked kemp for lifting the restrictions.
kemp lifts restrictions trump criticizes - Google Search
He was praising newsom in CA, cuomo in NY and Murphy in NJ for months.
A huge problem with trump the entire time and into the future is he’s incredibly stupid on most issues. He doesn’t know about most times and does and says stupid things a lot. I remember a few days after the parkland school shooting where he had 20 or so senators, etc at the WH and Feinstein went on a rant about gun control. All kids of loon ideas, universal background checks, AWB, mag limits, etc and trump told her, write the bill, I’ll get it passed and I’ll sign it. Feinstein was giddy, had a huge smile. That night NRA lobbyist Chris fox had to go to the WH, sit trump down and educate him. The next day he said the right things and gun control was dead.
DeSantis is near perfect on the issues, very smart, knows all the issues and he’s consistent and doesn’t put his foot in his mouth. He has a great family, hasn’t cheated on his wife with everything that moves (that hurts trump with women, they think he’s a pig and some vote on that), DeSantis has military experience, can serve two terms. Trump has a ton of baggage and to this day A LOT of people don’t like him. Trump also lost to a virtual corpse and one of the dumbest people to ever serve in the senate. There were shady things done but it’s trumps weakness as a candidate that it was close enough for the shady things to matter.
Trump won FL by 3.5%, DeSantis is currently leading dem candidates by 10%. DeSantis has $81 million in his campaign account, the two dems running for governor have less than $4 million. He’s going to crush them and have a huge wave of publicity to ride into 2024.