How Nervous are Trump and the Republicans?
- Mark M. Bello
- Jul 26, 2024
- 4 min read
Donald Trump, our dangerous and hypocritical former president, is whining more than ever before.
After calling his former opponent the worst president in history (actually, that distinction belongs to Trump alone), he now whines that the Democrats have discarded Biden and anointed a new candidate, defying Democratic primary voters who clearly chose the current president in the primaries.
Perhaps, he and his party are nervous.
Trump, the hypocrite and criminal who spearheaded an insurrection in an illegal attempt to circumvent the will of the voters in a national election, says the Democratic Party “stole the race” from Biden and are a “threat to democracy.” Trump conveniently declines to mention an important fact that wasn’t present during Trump’s despicable attempts to overturn the will of the people in 2020.
In 2024, one of the candidates, Joe Biden, decided to drop out of the race. The Democrats embrace of Vice President Kamala Harris is hardly equivalent to Trump’s pathetic, dangerous, and murderous decision to send his rowdy and destructive followers to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Is there no low limit to which this human piece of garbage won’t stoop to reclaim power?
The Democrats have violated no law or code of ethics. There is nothing illegal here. There is no party rule that prevents the Democrats from coalescing around Vice President Harris. In fact, party rules for both Democrats and Republicans permit delegates to vote for another candidate when their chosen candidate withdraws from the race after the primary elections but before securing the nomination.
While two-faced Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and wimp of the decade Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggest that the Democrats are “trying to upend the express will of the American people,” they continue to praise, support, and have nominated a criminal ex-president who is still looking for 11,780 votes, incited an insurrection to stay in power, decimated voting rights and women’s rights, committed fraud and sexual assault, stole classified documents, mocked a disabled reporter, and praised white nationalist racism and anti-Semitism.
The bottom line?
The Republican Party, the only party to ever nominate a convicted felon for POTUS, has zero credibility on the issue of election year ethics. In a few weeks, the Democratic Party will assemble a convention. In an open process, the party will select and nominate a candidate, who will likely be Harris. As she so eloquently said, “I will proudly put my record against his (Trump’s).” Here’s more of what she had to say:
"As many of you know, before I was elected as Vice President, before I was elected as a United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I've mentioned, to California. Before that, I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds, predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type."
The kings and princes of the anti-democratic movement and the authors of Project 2025 also know his type. I, for one, can’t wait for the battle between the prosecutor and the convicted felon. Republicans dare to lecture voters on democracy and election time ethics. How absurd is that?
I am not naïve. For some inexplicable reason, Trump’s inane rhetoric resonates with certain blocks of citizens. In a recent Washington Post survey, voters in six battleground states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona, rate the economy, threats to democracy, and crime to be the most important issues facing the new president.
On all three issues, these voters favored Trump over Biden. Republicans have had some success spouting conspiracy theories and making outrageous claims. The January 6th rioters are “patriots,” don’t you know? The multiple indictments against Trump are “witch hunts,” aren’t they? These claims, while absurd, have been surprisingly effective. But how will these comparisons play out with Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate?
Trump is now the “old man” of this election—the oldest candidate, ever, to seek the presidency. He is also the only candidate, ever, to say: “I will be a dictator on day one,” and the only one to argue that “there are good people on both sides” of a dispute between white nationalists and minority citizens.
He’s the only candidate to brag that he could sexually assault women with impunity or shoot someone on a major street without consequence. He’s the only one to call Mexicans “rapists, drug dealers, and criminals,” and the only one whose words and actions inspired an attack on the seat of our democracy. Only one party supports that candidate and those words and actions—the Republican Party.
So, why are Trump and the Republicans so nervous? How will Trump fare in comparison to Kamala Harris instead of Joe Biden?
The answer is keeping Republican strategists and officials awake at night. And that’s why they’re reverting to a new set of lies and conspiracy theories.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a whole new ball game.
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Please check out Mark Bello’s latest book, "The Anti-Semite Next Door," an exploration of antisemitism in the context of today's political environment.
It's the latest in Bello's ripped-from-the-headlines legal thrillers, all available online at Amazon and other major online booksellers. He has quite the hero in Attorney Zachary Blake, who fights for justice on all fronts. His previous books are Betrayal of Faith, Betrayal of Justice, Betrayal in Blue, Betrayal in Black, Betrayal High, Supreme Betrayal, Betrayal at the Border, You Have the Right to Remain Silent, and The Final Steps – A Harbor Springs Cozy Legal Mystery. He’s also written a wonderful children’s book about bullying, “Happy Jack, Sad Jack,” and he's just released "Love Hate Law," a new legal romance novel. For more info, just check markmbello.com.
Hey Mark, so glad that you wrote this piece. I, for one, cannot understand how Republicans can support Donald Trump when he has no moral character whatsoever. How can thinking people believe that it's okay that the President of the United States is nothing more than a name-calling bully. Did they not learn at home, or on the school playground how to act like civilized people? You covered the all of the reasons in your piece why Trump should be disqualified for holding any public office at all. Thanks.
Hi Mark - We're not nervous at all. At least Trump was chosen by voters, not via a soft-coup by the Democratic elite. And they say Trump's a threat to democracy? Kamala has NEVER won a presidential primary and never earned a delegate on her own merit. She's a diehard Marxist and the single most liberal--that is progressive--politician in our government. She's not pro-America, she's pro-United Nations. Republicanism is about national boundaries and sovereignty; Marxism is about no boundaries and global governance. It will be interesting to see how she fares in Pennsylvania trying to explain why fossil fuels must be annihilated. And, of course, she doesn't support ANY abortion regulation ... wow ... let's birth 'em half way, shover…