“The fact that the indictments are making it tougher to unseat Trump as the GOP nominee is just tough luck for anti-Trump conservatives,” writes Ross Douthat for The New York Times.
The fact that the indictments are making it tougher to unseat Trump as the GOP nominee is just tough luck for anti-Trump conservatives.
The counterargument has been that you can’t just give certain forms of abnormality a pass; otherwise, you end up tolerating not just demagogy but also lawbreaking, corruption and authoritarianism. The more subtle version of the argument insists that normalizing a demagogue is also ultimately a political mistake as well as a moral one and that you can’t make the full case against a figure like Trump if you try to leave his character and corruption out of it.
But it’s true that Biden did a fair bit of abnormalizing in his campaign rhetoric, and you could argue that the establishment panic was successful at keeping Trump’s support confined to a version of his 2016 coalition, closing off avenues to expand his popular appeal. Now, though, that potential dynamic seems to be evaporating, unraveled by the interaction between the multiplying indictments of Trump and DeSantis’ weak performance so far on the national stage. One way or another, 2024 increasingly looks like a full-abnormalization campaign.
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