Don’t misunderstand what Donald Trump means when he says he’s running for president again, as he did Tuesday evening.
He doesn’t mean that he will present his case to the American people in 2024 in the expectation that a majority of them will choose him, as they have never done before — not in 2016, when he lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College, nor in 2020, when he lost both.
He doesn’t mean that he puts his faith in American democracy, election integrity, the laws of presidential succession or any other institution that is coterminous with the nation itself. He doesn’t mean he plans to abide by any of those things.
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