re: optics
Now that the War of Succession is here, anon thinks we get to watch the pretenders to the throne duke it out. Potentially much dirty laundry can be aired by the Party leaders themselves now, ostensibly because they're "jockeying for position". Whatever the excuse, the actual result would be a… deluge.
While Team MAGA white-gloves it all, lifting eyes to the future.
The psychological effect should be… considerable.
And when it becomes obvious the Party can't put up a candidate with a fighting chance, will the public then be conditioned, at last, to expect nationwide election fraud? Prep for high-visibility election-tampering arrests before Nov. 5?
Optics…