Ross Douthat: There will be no perp walk where Trump exits the White House in handcuffs.
Donald Trump campaigns in Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 6, 2016.Since the 2022 midterm elections, the end of the Trump era in American politics has become, at least, a 50-50 proposition. While Ron DeSantis surges in multiple national polls, the former president has busied himself shilling $99 digital trading cards to his most devoted fans. The promised battle royale, in which Donald Trump emerges from Mar-a-Lago to smite his challenger and reclaim his throne, may yet be in the offing.
Nor will there be a dramatic repudiation of the Trumpist style. If DeSantis defeats Trump, it will be as an imitator of his pugilism and populism, as a politician who promises to fight Trump’s battles with more effectiveness and guile. As an original Never Trumper, I don’t begrudge anyone this reaction. If Trump fades, it will be a victory for places such as The Bulwark, but people naturally want something more than a quiet, limited victory after a long, existential-seeming campaign. They want vindication. They want to feel as if everyone finally agrees: Never again.
Or, to pick an international example, in the brief window when Russia was a semifunctional democracy, its leading opposition party was, of course, the successor to the Communist Party, whose dictatorial rule had recently been overthrown.
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