Except the trial for the insurrection is just barely starting, not to mention all the other indictments. Yes, he wasn't immediately locked up and should have been. Yes, he's being treated differently because he's rich, but it's not like nothing is happening.

For real. I'm really jealous that the courts in Brazil have already banned Bolsanaro from running for office for the next 10 years and Pakistan's parliament ousted Khan for being ungenerous to the Ukraine conflict and then later the police arrested him for bribery. Those are supposedly developing countries but they are doing a better job of controlling their tyrannical despots than we are. Fortunately, like I keep saying, Trump has too much work cut out for him to effectively campaign with so many charges. He's been in the lead, but I don't know if he can stay that way.

The question is how to enforce the 14th amendment. This suit looks like a decent attempt at it, that doesn't require Congress to act. (Congress has way too many Republicans right now, who will not enforce the 14th amendment against one of their own.)

The problem is that he did everything he could to use language to make it arguable that he was saying things that incite

This is what I've been saying. He's a felon! Over 90 felonies! He's can't run for election.

Trump is a cult of personality, once he goes, the next guy can be Trump In All But Name, and the fanbois won't care

I think a lot of people would just be happy to see Trump cut out of the race for good. There will be no majority for DeSantis, because the Trump disciples will shun him, cutting down any possible Non-Trump REP candidate.

Seems more like a preemptive strike in an attempt to discredit the claim early in a friendly district.

Hah. No. He'd never let someone else shine.

Don Jr, although lauded by the right, also doesn't have what Trump has: an unerring ability to devote himself to the most simplistic and repetitive dogma in the face of all evidence and disagreement.

Part of Trumps success is to unwavering believe something, regardless of how misinformed, even when informed. Examples: "I use spray deodorant it didn't affect the climate that day", "I can change the weather report with a sharpie", "windmills cause cancer", "inject bleach to cure covid", "health insurance only costs $20 a month."

It's part of DeSantis' problem too that he couldn't say something like "blueberry jam makes you a better lover in bed and strawberry jam makes democrats have more abortions" and mean it.