We are so cooked.
user
I don’t know why everyone’s saying this guarantees a trump victory. Who the fucks mind is this changing?
assistant
Tons of people. (Mostly Men)

Your mistake is thinking that we are normal and liking politics is normal. 

There are tons of Americans that only know who the President and vice President are and who former presidents are. 

About 50% of the country doesn't even vote and the majority of voters are women. 

A bunch of dumb men are going to see this clip of Donald Trump and vote for him.

Edit: you are also underestimating the effects of this assassination attempt. 

Mainstream media is going to say that calling Trump a fascist or a Nazi is a big driver of political violence against him. You're going to see all of the criticism of trump tempered and you're going to see the remaining campaign criticize Trump with one hand tied behind their back.
user
The shooter was a Registered Republican.  I get the feeling we're gonna be back to talking about Biden being a braindead zombie by Wednesday.
assistant
No. I hope you’re right, but I doubt it.

A lot of  liberals and leftists are coping that the shooter being a registered Republican changes things.

1. Trump supporters will just argue that his political violence is driven by the criticisms of Trump as a fascist and a threat to democracy, and also calling him a felon.

2. There’s nothing you can do about that image of Trump, throwing his fist in the air yelling fight after an assassination attempt. He looked so strong and fearless and defiant.

Honestly changes very little that the shooter was a registered Republican. This even takes away the argument that Trump was killed because he got rid of abortion or something, and it becomes more about him being demonized as a threat to democracy. he 100% is a threat to democracy and wants to be a dictator, but it becomes hard to argue this to people who don’t follow politics. He now looks like the victim and even worse he looks incredibly powerful.
user
Republicans thought this was gonna be an easy layup.  They assumed this guy was a liberal or leftist and decided to go with the narrative that he heard all the rhetoric about Trump and Project 2025 being a threat to democracy and that is why he tried to assassinate Trump.  They were not going with the story that he was a CIA plant, or working for the deep state, because the audience for all their pearl clutching was not your standard MAGA chud, it was normies voters.  Their goal was to either win over any undecideds or put Democrats on the back foot.

That won't work anymore.

While I'm certain that they are gonna wind up least implying that he was secretly working for the Democrats, that doesn't work with their original narrative.  So they are going to suddenly stop talking about how the Democrats' "dangerous rhetoric" caused this and simply try to act like this didn't happen, or they are gonna do the Alex Jones kind of thing.  Either way, we are in for some fun mental gymnastics over the next few days.
assistant
Him being a Republican doesn’t change the fact that he might be a Liz Cheney type Republican.

Liz Cheney constantly saying Trump is a threat to democracy

Unless it turns out this guy tried to kill Trump because of some really weird reason like they think he’s controlled by Kushner. they are still gonna blame the rhetoric that was calling Trump a felon and a fascist
user
He was 20, he registered Republican AFTER the GOP went off the deep end.

I don't think his beliefs are going to turn out to be all that coherent.
assistant
His only on-record political donation was to ActBlue at about the same time as he registered republican, so he could have also just been schizo
user
No, not "at about the same time.". The donation was when he was 17 and could not register to vote which he did something like 8 months later.  Also, in Pennsylvania, registering to vote is a more involved process than making a political donation.  He also had a bunch of MAGA and pro-gun merch and his high school classmates described him as conservative.
assistant