[U] In Which Hinderaker… Finds A Fainting Couch — And Well, You Can Guess The Rest… Hilarious.

Updated @ 11:20 pm EST — Hinderaker has taken a lot of flack in his comments, from his MAGA readers… incensed that he said the Supremes won’t overturn the Colorado result. So in an update, he quotes a “highly respected” (but anonymous) lawyer to say the US Supremes will dump the Colorado opinion 9-0. Heh. Dream on.

That’s why I update — all the rest is trivial, but there is very little chance KBJ or the Wise Latina Justice will say that CO got it wrong. At most, they’ll decline to rule at all. And Gorsuch — a Justice from Colorado, may very well agree with his CO brothers. In any event, it will be… entertaining from here.

I could even see the Chief (Roberts) letting the CO ruling stand — so as to kill Trumpism good and dead before the 2024 cycle ends. Hilarious! End, updated portion.

I get that on the surface of his bleating tonight, John hopes to incite violence against the Supreme Court of Colorado — and her Justices — as well as the trial court judge there.

That is transparently obvious.

What I think is his more subtle goal… is one he and the Powerliner boys have long openly courted. They all want the GOP to be PREVENTED from naming Tangerine as the 2024 nominee, this coming summer.

And this 213 page Colorado decision (especially if one views it as essentially immutable, and not subject to being overturned in the US Supremes — as John says he does) is a perfect on-ramp to that outcome.

If Hinderaker is right, that the Supremes will say this is a states’ rights issue… then no sane GOP delegate to the Convention next summer will nominate Tangerine.

You cannot win, if you are not on the ballot in as many as perhaps five states, by then. [No matter that they are reliably blue states.] The math will never work for any GOP nominee who cannot garner a single vote, in perhaps 10 per cent of all states. And thus those states’ electoral college electors… will already be certifying a Democratic president, as winner — before polls close, even. The slaughter will be historic, for if that is how it goes, MAGA voters won’t even show up, and down ballots will be deep blue, nationwide.

All (John implies, UNLESS)… unless the GOP votes to run… someone else. Someone who is still eligible to be on Colorado’s ballots.

That is in fact John’s end game — getting to the compelled “someone else” — on the GOP ticket, in the general… and having the ability to blame Democrats when said “someone else” loses. [As he or she will.]

Again, accept the ugly truth of it, John — if Trump is not the GOP nominee, we all know he will run third party — and that per force means… your “someone else” is about 20 to 30 million votes in the hole, out of the gate.

It is… in sum, a wipe-out — either way. Democrats will control 1600 Penn. no matter what now — for four more years, minimum.