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Hey how about we not write articles on the verbal diarrhea that comes out of that fucking guy? Stop giving him the microphone.
Because he's still currently the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for US president in 2024. What he says may not make any sense; that the right wing in the US is embracing it means that his statements cannot stand unchallenged.
If reasonable people ignore him, he won't go away, because unreasonable people are paying attention to him. The sadder thing is that even if he goes away, his supporters will not suddenly become reasonable.
I would love for the day to arrive where Trump's impact was so low that everything he said could be ignored. I really, really wish that day was today.
Unfortunately, it's not. He's the Republican frontrunner for 2024 and even being indicted multiple times isn't slowing him down. If anything, Republicans are rallying around him and claiming that him being charged with multiple crimes somehow proves that that Democrats are corrupt. (Did mean old Hillary force Trump to take those classified documents home with him?)
Trump still has a following. If he tells them "X is corrupt and needs to be taken out," you're likely to have one or more idiots trying to follow Trump's order with violence. Given that they are idiots, they aren't likely to succeed, but throw enough idiots at "Trump's problem" and eventually one might succeed out of pure dumb luck.