Trump was Made a Martyr

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The yearslong effort to vanquish Donald Trump in court was a dismal failure. For liberals like me, it may be tempting to attribute the collapse of the various cases against him to convenient explanations of process or personnel. The more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political salvation primarily through the law has backfired. To oppose Mr. Trump in his second term, liberals must learn the lesson of this defeat, which is that there is no alternative to persuading our fellow citizens of our beliefs.

Samuel Moyn
Yale professor of law
November 22, 2024
Opinion | The Legal Battle Against Trump Was a Miserable Failure – The New York Times

Basically, they made President a Trump a martyr. The overreaching on all the legal claims made Trump a sympathetic figure. People related to him on this because they have been suffering abuse inflicted by the “liberals” for decades. The more they attacked him with such thin legal cases, the stronger the sympathy became. People became more and more convinced the attackers were on the side of evil.

Moyn doesn’t understand a key point. Alternatively, he is deliberately dodging it. His political bedfellows know what he avoids saying here. They are pushing a faulty belief system that cannot be sold to the majority of the people. In today’s world, lawfare is of one of the only tools they have to achieve their goals. The Internet exists, so restricting information through “approved gatekeepers” does not work as well as it used to. The remaining other primary option they have is criminal violence. And they don’t have the numbers or the monopoly on firearms to win on that front either.

Hence, they are losing their battles for mind share.

As a side note, here is a useful hack. You can use it to read some pay walled websites, such as the New York Times. This works on Windows Edge. I’m not sure about other browsers or operating systems.

  1. Go to the web page you want to read.
  2. Type “Ctrl-A” (select all).
  3. Type “Ctrl-C” (copy).
  4. Open up something that will accept HTML from the clipboard, such as Word.
  5. Paste the clipboard into the document.
  6. Read the entire web page.
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4 thoughts on “Trump was Made a Martyr”

  2. Word is an HTML editor? Okay, I’m showing my age, I guess. I’m reminded of the joke about EMACS being an entire OS. And I do know that things such as OpenOffice writer have been HTML capable for a long time too. Still strikes me as funny. As an aside, I’ve heard that Word still sucks for ODT files, when MS could make it work very well, if they wanted to.

    An easier hack is to turn off JavaScript. It seems web developers now consider it to be so ubitquitous that they can rely on it for enforcing their paywall, and just don’t consider the possibility that anyone would use a browser without it. The results are mixed, and sometimes quite difficult to read, since layout and typography often just go out the window, but also often revealing in terms of how modern websites are built. Another hack with similar utility is to turn off CSS. This is more dramatic in terms of layout etc., and doesn’t work for avoiding paywalls.

    NYT is quite legible without JavaScript. The WSJ’s paywall has better code driving it, and you can’t get around it with that hack.

    I’m aware of a couple online sites which purport to bypass paywalls:
    – https://www.removepaywall.com/
    – https://12ft.io/
    YMMV. I don’t use them, because I haven’t found they work for WSJ, and haven’t needed them for other sites.

    YMMV also, because I do 95% of my browsing using Seamonkey in Linux, where I have JavaScript reigned in using the GhostScript plugin very strictly, even though IIRC, Seamonkey does have an option to turn it off entirely. I have no idea where, or how, one would disable JavaScript in Firefox, Edge, or Chrome. Presumably, plugins exist.

  3. “To oppose Mr. Trump in his second term, liberals must learn the lesson of this defeat, which is that there is no alternative to persuading our fellow citizens of our beliefs.”
    And the perfect answer.
    ” They are pushing a faulty belief system that cannot be sold to the majority of the people. In today’s world.”
    Communism goes against human nature. It’s as simple as that. And just like all artificial constructs. They have to be imposed by force.
    Which is something else people don’t like.
    And what Samuel can’t seem to relate, or relate to, is the fact that his ideas always lead to destruction. There not building anything.
    But worst of all for him is communist ego, it can’t face the fact that everyone else already thought their ideas through, and rejected them.
    Their far to special to be rejected.
    One would think a friend would tell him. Dude, get over yourself. Your shits runny. You need to drop the 1916, Che wanna be crap.
    But then the only people he knows or associates with are probably other communists. So the rest of humanity will just have to suffer it out.

  4. The left TRULY believes they are in the right…have the correct answers to all questions. They CANNOT understand because they REFUSE to understand. Doing so would require that they admit they are incorrect. Admitting they are wrong would bring their entire universe crashing down around them. They are unreachable. Immune to facts, logic or reason.

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