I don’t believe he thinks that abstractly. Maybe his advisors will tell him as such and he’ll do it but I have my doubts.
He wants his followers to love and worship him. Not operate in a, “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” sort of way. He just wants the, “you scratch my back” part.
By pardoning them he’s sending a message that he’ll do something for them for free. That’s not how Trump operates. He’s going to want something immediately in return; power or money or both. The Jan 6th insurrectionists don’t have much of either.
Trump only does things when he sees a tangible benefit to himself. “Doesn’t cost him anything” is not really Trumps line of thinking.
That being said, I guess we’ll see in a bit.
It does benefit him - people will be more likely to break the law for him if they know they will eventually get away with it.
I don’t believe he thinks that abstractly. Maybe his advisors will tell him as such and he’ll do it but I have my doubts.
He wants his followers to love and worship him. Not operate in a, “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” sort of way. He just wants the, “you scratch my back” part.
By pardoning them he’s sending a message that he’ll do something for them for free. That’s not how Trump operates. He’s going to want something immediately in return; power or money or both. The Jan 6th insurrectionists don’t have much of either.
He wants them to help the next time. That’s a pretty tangible benefit
Very true. But it’s not like he doesn’t have an endless supply of those idiots already.