"Who would Trump be if he withdrew from the race? A nobody —and a nobody with no protection from the law. The authoritarian playbook dictates that it’s precisely when you have serious legal problems that you are most motivated to run for office, so you can gain (or regain) power and domesticate the judiciary so your legal exposure will vanish."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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https://lucid.substack.com/p/running-for-office-while-under-indictment