In a Christmas message to his followers Monday, former President Donald Trump said he hopes supporters of “Electric Car Lunacy” would “ROT IN HELL.”

Trump’s Monday afternoon Truth Social post continued a theme he had been developing with several other posts since Christmas Eve, attacking Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two criminal cases against him.

The frontrunner of the 2024 presidential race for the Republican Party nomination added a missive against “THUGS,” which he said were more “evil” and “sick” than all world leaders. In the grammatically confusing post, Trump also appeared to attack Israel, which Trump lumped in with Iran, as well as both Russia and Ukraine.

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    6 months ago

    You seem to be conflating “the left” with the Democrats. The Democrats are not particularly leftist. The political compass doesn’t move just because the Democrats do that is like saying “The car drives East so North becomes East.” It’s wiser to treat the political compass is more of a fixed set of cardinal directions. Leftists and Right Wingers exist outside of parties.

    Neither right nor left are parties. So when describing parties stances it’s way more accurate to use the party names.

    There are a lot of leftists in America, you just don’t have a leftist centric party because the way things are established running one would likely cause a spoiler vote. It’s something of a sore point amongst leftists that the First past the post system keeps them from voting their hearts or running a candidate so representing the “slightly more left but actually still right wing” candidates as “left” isn’t exactly great.