Why couldn't he just be a poster? He's so good at it. Like, just be a guy who tweets and dunks on people, and everyone will love you. Why you gotta be a fascist.
Hate to see people waste their life doing something their not good at (business, governing, marriage) when they could just spend it tweeting.
Then Rubio or Cruz would become president in 2016 and they would be much worse. Once Hillary was the Dem nominee, Trump was the best possible GOP option. He hired the same Bush people that Cruz or Rubio would, but was then such a chaos agent that a lot of GOP agenda was stalled. And he was so personally unpopular that he lost in 2020, even against Biden.
The media really fucked up by shadowbanning trump these past 4 years because people were tired of his schtick by 2020 but they're going have to show him again now since he's the frontrunner and they're not tired of him yet
no no no give him the Napoleon treatment - lock him in a gilded cell with no access to the outside world except 280 characters at a time. tell him the campaign is still going and that his guards are his campaign staffers.