The Trump Indictments’ High Price
reality, of course, is they are building him into an almost unstoppable political phenomenon. My reading of Mr. Trump’s more than 50% support in the primary polls has been that 30% is his standard base and at least 20% consists primarily of resentment of these prosecutions alongside the wrist-slap prosecution by Merrick Garland’s Justice Department of Hunter Biden and his well-aware, enabling father.
Many Republicans do want to move past the Trump mayhem, but it is getting harder to see how the pro-Trump resentment vote does anything but increase through this year. The serial indictments have many non-Trump Republicans furious. The Democrats’ bet has been that Mr.
Trump is the one Republican Joe Biden could beat, with independents deserting the former president as they did in 2020. That sounded right, but I’m not so sure anymore. The prosecutorial overkill, the overflowing kitchen sink of criminal counts, is starting to back out all other 2024 considerations.
What great timing: The one thing the U.S. needs—for itself and an amazed, watching world—is a serious presidential election. Xi Jinping must be doing somersaults at the spectacle of his adversary draining its political energy over the Trump indictments.
Mr. Xi, an expert in rigged elections, is surely aware that the U.S. system of accountability has analyzed and refuted Mr.
Trump’s election claims. But Mr. Xi must also be concluding that any system that resolves such an aggressive challenge but then insists on disappearing down a rabbit hole of internal division won’t have enough political capital left to resist his plans for China’s expansion.
Mr. Trump calls the prosecutions “election interference," by which he means the election in November 2024. But clearly the
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