The Colorado Supreme Court just ruled that Trump is ineligible for the state's ballot, setting up an appeal to the US Supreme Court. I know there's a conservative majority but I think there are a lot of conservatives that are tired of the guy and if they could end the Trump era with 100% certainty they would take it. I can't help but wonder (hope?) that we could see a surprise decision from SCOTUS that rules him ineligible to run for president again. Can you imagine? I can't almost feel the heavy sigh of relief catching in my chest, waiting to be exhaled.
My thinking on how Trump ultimately loses his grip on the GOP is basically this: he gets beaten soundly in the next election, which all objective observers conclude as free and fair. His most die-hard supporters won’t waiver and will whine about the “rigged” system, but I expect the other ~50% of conservative voters will become so irate at them for having to endure another term with the Dems in the White House that they will finally turn on him. His ultimate legacy will then be as someone who lost the popular vote all three times and the EC decisively twice, and who’s sole signature policy “achievement” is cutting corporate taxes, despite controlling both houses during half his administration.
My fear with a closer election where one or a few states bar him from the ballot is that the legal system will become the scapegoat and deflect the blame for failure on the four-times-indicted former president.
Eventually Trump will die, and the GOP will either hold him up as a political martyr or discarded as a political failure. If it’s the former I worry we will suffer through decades more of this “Trumpian” style of politics.
