The Case for Trump 2024: Donald Trump’s Enemies

In the 2016 election, I was swept up in the Alt-Right wave and was feeling pragmatic and voted for Trump to “move the Overton Window” and “destroy Conservatism, Inc.”

In the 2020 election, I was extremely blackpilled and sat out the federal election. I was influenced by the activists in my internet silo and the negative atmosphere that emerged in the wake of Unite the Right. The Alt-Right collapsed and never recovered from Charlottesville. In both cases, I went along with activists who swung between the extremes of euphoria in 2016 and depression in 2020.

By 2024, I had seen enough to conclude that Donald Trump is the accelerant in our politics. Actually, the Overton Window had moved since he came down the escalator in 2015. Conservatism, Inc. had also changed beyond recognition. Reaganism was no longer the reigning ideology. Conservative institutions had been hollowed out and were slowly adapting to the Trump era. Trump was getting relentlessly attacked for being associated with Project 2025. Conservative influencers and activists now exist in the same space on X and Rumble. Tucker Carlson interviews untouchable people like Steve Sailer. A good rule of thumb is that edgy conservatism is about three years behind activists.

Donald Trump’s enemies are one of the most compelling arguments to support him. It is the reason why the Right rallied behind him in the 2024 election. Trump’s first term was consumed by endless investigations like the Russia Hoax. He was impeached twice by his enemies over a phone call with Zelensky and January 6. He was cancelled and deplatformed from the internet in 2021. He was sued and found liable for sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll. He was sued again in New York and was ordered to pay $454 million in his civil fraud case. He was arrested and indicted on over 90 felony charges in four jurisdictions. Mostly recently, Trump had a brush with death in an assassination attempt.

The unhinged overreaction of Trump’s enemies is the driver of polarization in American politics. It has been a gift that keeps on giving. It has undermined confidence in the U.S. military on the Right. It has discredited the FBI, DOJ and civil service who have been branded as the Deep State. It has eroded confidence in the professions and Big Business. It has discredited the Constitution cargo cultists. It has discredited the justice system and the rightwing obsession with “law and order.” The law is now accurately seen as a tool to punish enemies and reward friends and is less shrouded in myths than it used to be. “Journalists” and “watchdog organizations” lost their credibility a long time ago. We forget that we have Trump to thank for this massive erosion of trust in all institutions. In the 2016 election, the FBI was still seen as great American patriots rather than as a malevolent state police force.

In 2020, the anti-Trump energy was so intense in the Summer of Floyd that it led to the mainstreaming of explicit anti-White hate on the Left. It was a bonanza for leftwing activists who rose up and seized control of the public image of the Democratic Party. Over the next two years, the Wokelash on the Right led to the mainstreaming of anti-anti-White politics on the Right. The term anti-White has since become part of the political conversation. We are now on the cusp of the mainstreaming of White advocacy. This dynamic between Trump and his enemies in which both sides up the ante is responsible.

The stakes of this election are also very different for Donald Trump than in 2016 or 2020. “Lock her up” was an applause line at Trump’s rallies in 2016. After he won the presidency, he dialed back his rhetoric and focused on trying to govern for the good of the country. Trump’s vindictive enemies, however, never forgave him for the crime of winning the 2016 election. They have attempted to destroy his business and incarcerate him for the rest of his life. They have locked up nearly everyone who involved in Trump’s 2016 campaigns. They have even gone after the lawyers who defended him in 2020.

Donald Trump is currently in a death match with his political enemies. Either Trump wins the 2024 election and destroys them or they win and incarcerate Trump and his circle. There isn’t a third option. It shouldn’t have to be stated how much of a chilling effect the latter scenario would have on our politics. The notion that Americans will, say, be emboldened to embrace a National Socialist third party after criminalizing MAGA and sending its leadership to prison is a delusional fantasy. It is better for Trump to win and crush these people and move on into private life in 2028 than the alternative.

The Donald Trump who ran in the 2016 election was running as a Herman Cain type candidate. It was a vanity move. The idea was to step into the political arena to promote his brand. He did not expect to win the 2016 election and become the president. After Trump won the 2016 election, he delegated power to his subordinates and tried to govern as a normal conservative president. He ran for reelection to “Keep America Great.” He would have left behind a legacy like a President Mitt Romney.

I disagree with the activists who expect a Trump second term will unfold like the first one or the aborted second term we would have gotten in the 2020 election. Donald Trump in 2024 is now a brooding, vengeful figure who is being hunted by his enemies who have backed him into a corner. He now sincerely regrets “going easy” on them in his first term. He has been clearly radicalized by what has happened to him as would anyone. He is also justified in his belief that he has been treated “very unfairly.” The new Donald Trump is also not sharing power with Mike Pence and the old establishment.

As usual, the point of this article is to explain my own thinking because otherwise you would not understand the shifts in my position. I am not telling you to vote for Donald Trump. You are capable of making your own decisions. This is my attempt to flesh out my own inner monologue.

1. The Right finally moves on from Trump in 2028

2. The Alt-Right has terrible political instincts

3. Joe Biden has been a sedative as president

4. Activist brain blinds us and creates prejudice against conservative normies

5. Trump is the leader because he is the best of the Republicans

6. “Worse is better” is a cope and was tried in 2020 and maintains the status quo

7. Voting is not a sacrament. Few know this

8. Voting is not going to change anything about Zionism in the next four years

9. Activists have the chance to ride the Trump wave without making the same mistakes

10. Activists are running out of material because the Overton Window has shifted so much

11. Donald Trump is a hunted dog who has backed into a corner