Opinion: Indictment politics: Short-term Trump boost, long-term GOP unraveling
The unprecedented indictment of Former President Donald Trump in New York throws the American legal system into uncharted waters, yet the politics surrounding the case feel eerily familiar: the spotlight is once again shining on Trump for an undesirable reason, and the Republican Party is still sticking by him.
While this indictment might benefit Trump’s political career in the short-term, the GOP’s fealty to the former president will further weaken the party in the long-term. The results of the last three national elections – which were each a referendum on Trump and his brand of extreme, divisive politics – are proof of the latter.
The former president’s response to the indictment is text-book Trump. He is positioning himself as a martyr and an aggrieved victim of the left-leaning political establishment, and is using his arrest to rally his supporters and raise money.his already-considerable lead in presidential primary polls.
Admittedly, the legal case being brought against Trump in New York is tenuous. Prosecutors are relying on a novel
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