Trump’s legal peril has only strengthened his bond with the GOP base, putting fellow Republican candidates in a terrible bind.
Why has Trump only grown stronger as a candidate as this shadow of disgrace fell upon him? It’s likely a combination of factors. First, as Jonathan Chait, Trump’s base is increasingly convinced that his criminality is actually proof of his victimhood via politically motivated prosecutors who would jail every MAGA activist if they could:
The paranoia of the right and the seamy criminality of the right’s current champion … have brought the party to this point. Trump’s endlessly repeated “witch hunt” meme blends together the mobster’s hatred of the FBI with the conservative’s fear of the bureaucrat. His loyalists have been trained to either deny any evidence of misconduct by their side or rationalize it as a necessary countermeasure against their enemies.
The concept of “crime” has been redefined in the conservative mind to mean activities by Democrats. They insist upon Trump’s innocence because they believe a Republican, axiomatically, cannot be a criminal.he is in legal peril has placed his rivals for the presidential nomination in a terrible bind. With very few exceptions, they have followed the GOP rank and file in defending the former president against his prosecutorial tormenters.
Some believe the sheer magnitude of Trump’s legal peril will reach a tipping point where Republicans becomeof the old scofflaw, sparking a desire for a fresher MAGA demagogue like DeSantis who doesn’t have to spend so much time in court.
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