I don’t believe the Trump shooting was a conspiracy but the effect is the same as if it were planned. It came precisely at the time that our marketing campaign to hang Project 2025 around Trump’s neck was picking up steam. Now MSNBC is self censoring to not offend Republicans during their convention, if what I am reading here is correct. All of the chatter is about how Trump is doing and how we all need to get along, as if both sides were to blame.
Project 2025 is toxic to Trump. Tying all of that fascist rhetoric to him is our best and possibly only hope of beating him. Right from the start it had him and the entire Republican Party on the defensive and shifted the focus away from Biden’s missteps onto Trump’s autocratic platform.
Now we have to find a way to regain that momentum. This is another example of how every time Trump is on the ropes someone rises up to protect him. We have to find an opening to restart this line of attack.