Subject: Re: Trump orders DOJ to go after oil companies
Why is he sending his stooges around, seizing voting machines and ballots? What is the point in re-litigating 2020, yet again? Here's a better one. He is demanding ballots from Michigan, for 2024, when he carried this state. Why?

Because he's petty and churlish and is convinced that he won 2020, and is so narcissistic and insecure that it is important to him that he win that argument. Because he wants to exact vengeance on the subset of those who thwarted him that are weak enough that he can punish. Because he is convinced that Democrats are terrible to him and will cheat at every opportunity in 2026 so they can impeach him again, and wants to try to stop that from happening.

We will find out in November.

We'll find out something in November, but nothing related to the point I've been making in this thread. I think Trump is a terrible person who abuses the power of the Presidency for purposes both venal and gross. And I think he lacks any of the fearlessness, ruthlessness, attention to detail and absolute will to power necessary to even try to be a dictator, much less to actually succeed. For all the fulmination about what Trump does to his political enemies, he has shown zero of the resolve and ruthlessness to seize power outside of legitimate processes.

Real strongmen don't subject their enemies to the modest risks and minor expenses of being subject to a pretextual investigation that disappears the moment a judge (or someone on the Banking Committee) tells them to knock it off. Real strongmen have their enemies pushed out of windows or injected with polonium.

Trump doesn't have the attention, drive, intelligence, ruthlessness, or courage to move out of normal society into a power structure where making a single wrong move means you get a bullet in the brain, not just losing a deal or a lawsuit.