Time to Hop on the Trump Train, by Auguste Meyrat

If they want to win, Republican donors need to ditch the bandwagons and support Trump.

By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine, August 1, 2023

Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher and department chair in north Texas. He has a BA in Arts and Humanities from University of Texas at Dallas and an MA in Humanities from the University of Dallas.

Even with a third indictment looming, Donald Trump continues to solidify his dominance over all the other candidates in the Republican presidential primary. In national polls, he averages over fifty percent (which will probably rise when the next indictment actually happens) while his ten competitors all compete for the leftovers—and perhaps a cabinet position in a second Trump administration. Even with more indictments and scandals, it’s unlikely that anything will derail or slow down the runaway Trump Train—and the underwhelming presidential forum in Iowa the other week only reaffirmed this truth.

Even so, hope springs eternal in the hearts of Never-Trump Republican donors. Instead of using their resources for the good of the party, they will continually support dull, artificial candidates with little hope of winning as well as consistently undermine and discredit the very people who make the GOP popular. This is certainly the case with former president Donald Trump, but also with Trump-aligned candidates like Kari Lake, Tudor Dixon, Kelly Tshibaka, and populist conservative media personalities like Tucker Carlson. …

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