But the same crowd still support him. So he knows already knows he doesn't have to protect them. He pardoned a bunch of 2016 campaign insiders because they were a liability to him if the decided to turn on him. So I genuinely don't think he will pardon anybody where there's not a clear quid pro quo of how it directly benefits him.
One wants to install a real fascist state for the first day of their second term. The other not.
Keep repeating this.
One will pardon every convicted felon from January 6th. The other... will continue to keep them in jail.
Totally the same!
I doubt that. Trump will only pardon people for whom there is an economic advantage for him to do so.
There is an advantage to signaling to your extremist followers that you will shield them from consequences, so they can do their worst with impunity.
That's how dictatorships work. And there's an economic advantage to being a dictator.
But he already played that up and left people out to dry in his 2016 campaign
J6 insurrectionists already hoped/expected Trump to issue pardons before he left office
But the same crowd still support him. So he knows already knows he doesn't have to protect them. He pardoned a bunch of 2016 campaign insiders because they were a liability to him if the decided to turn on him. So I genuinely don't think he will pardon anybody where there's not a clear quid pro quo of how it directly benefits him.