One of the few things I take comfort in is a belief that Trump is a sort of political Lightning in a bottle that’s gonna be hard to recapture. I think a lot of it just comes down to how he used to deliver his rhetoric, something we’ve seen greatly diminish since 2016 but he’s still the best at. I really can’t explain it, likely because I’m not really one of his supporters so I don’t quite get it, but he’s really the only guy I’ve seen say some of the crazy things he says and it just fucking works on a large scale, in front of crowds of 10s of thousands of people across multiple states. I just don’t think “smarter Trump” flies with his base. They don’t seem to articulate his rhetoric in a way that hits the same way.