in 2015/16, i picked trump after rand paul's launch and platform disappointed and alienated me, and i wanted him to beat hillary both because i'd always hated hillary and because of the novelty of "president trump" actually becoming a thing after decades of it being a punchline to jokes. now, i feel like guys voting for fdr's third and fourth terms: trump's the one constant in a world of chaos, and with everything that's happened over the last decade up to and including assassination attempts, the only way the "trump story" can end is with him proving the media and political class wrong again and cementing himself even further into history. the whole outsider campaign victory of 2016, two impeachments, "losing" in a rigged election, "muh j6" and similar screeching, being indicted of bogus charges, the mugshot, the assassination attempts, uniting the likes of rfk and tulsi into his movement, and finally... becoming the second president in history to serve two non-consecutive terms. if this were a book or a movie, the only way an author would write this ending is trump winning this election. and over this whole decade, i went from finding him funny and a middle finger to the political and media class to now dreading how empty politics will feel once he's gone.
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