You could feel it rip through the Trump-o-verse on Twitter on Friday evening. The crushing blow. Breaking: Supreme Court throw out Texas lawsuit. Only Thomas and Alito voted to grant the motion to introduce the suit.
You could feel the morale sap away for the moment. Then some people recovered. We move on, they announce. They had felt victory so close. It was not to be, at least today.
It never occurred to me that the Supreme Court would choose to play the deciding role here. I wanted them to do so, but I think it was asking too much of the three younger ones, who are actually Trump appointees. Perhaps they will find courage at some point. Or they take the next case tomorrow and everything changes. Can't tell. Could all change by tomorrow morning. Maybe everyone is seeing the Supreme Court result in the wrong way, and we'll change our minds about it soon. Can't tell. Somehow I am not stressed about it. I feel grief for my fellow Trump supporters out there, but not for our cause, or for Trump.
Trump never counted on the Court. How could he have? Wictor---our Venezuelan---is right. Trump knows that at any time he can prove he has won. He is going to squeeze this for all he can, and somehow show the nation what happened in a way that we can absorb.
The next two weeks are going to be among the strangest in the history of the country. We should all pray that we come out of it without scrapes, and with the Republic intact.
How does Trump win it?
I have a hunch that if one could look into Trump's plans, and see how this will play out, and one then tried write it in a blog post at the moment, that few would believe it.
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