Exactly WHO would be the plaintiff who’d be effectively trying to trash the world economy in trying to jam through unpopular spending cuts?

Donald Trump. He'd claim "standing to sue" on the grounds that he would be likely to suffer personally in the 2020 election if Republicans weren't allowed to tank the economy.

Does anyone actually think Trump gives a shit about the economy or the devastation he'd be causing for Americans, the United States and by extension the world economy? If anyone thinks he gives a shit about anyone not named "Donald Trump," then it would do them good to pull their head out of their ass and pay better attention.

The right-wing and their bigly loser frontrunner are desperately attempting to create this false equivalency between Biden and Trump since Poor Donald is a criminal chaos agent, and the GOP are spineless whining snowflakes unable to agree on much of anything so all they have to offer are culture wars and are generally unable to govern.

I agree and I maintain that Hillary was the only Democrat that Trump could beat in 2016.

You think Trump couldn't beat a self-described socialist Bernie Sanders in 2016 with all the myriad baggage attached to him at that point from birth to age 75? Bernie is a far-lefty who was a member of the Socialist Party of America and Liberty Union Party and the right-wing KKKonservatives dream candidate for nigh on a decade because the extremes on either side don't play too well among the independents who decide presidential elections.

You could obviously argue Bernie isn't a Democrat, but then he ran as one and was the "runner up" two election cycles in a row for the nomination of the Democratic Party.

Likewise Trump was the only Republican that Biden could beat in 2020.

While I'm certain that Joe Biden could have mopped the floor with 2016 runner up Ted Cruz and his dominionism ideological BS in 2020.

Democrats were laser focused on electability which is why the establishment candidates all bailed and threw their support to Biden.

It's an exceptionally good thing to focus on unless you like losing repeatedly.

IF it’s a rematch of 2020 we’ll get the same result so long as Biden doesn’t croak.

I'm an Independent, and I would vote for a deceased Democrat over any right-wing extremist living KKKonservative. Just saying. :)

In political eality, Trump has never been elected president once, let alone twice. In the 2016 election, Hillary was 'diselected', Trump was not 'elected'.

Well, we agree on the fact that Donald is the bigliest loser, but if Trump insists ad nauseam that he actually won the 2020 election, then he is obviously his own best argument for why he's constitutionally barred from "winning" again.

I think the lack of standing with which to sue against the 14th Amendment Sec. 4 is not the only impediment.

Exactly WHO would be the plaintiff who’d be effectively trying to trash the world economy in trying to jam through unpopular spending cuts? Surely not any politician who ever wants to win another election. Maybe ALEC or the Club for Growth? But whomever I’d think they’d be forevermore radioactive to all but the true believers.

I agree and I maintain that Hillary was the only Democrat that Trump could beat in 2016.

Likewise Trump was the only Republican that Biden could beat in 2020. Democrats were laser focused on electability which is why the establishment candidates all bailed and threw their support to Biden.

IF it’s a rematch of 2020 we’ll get the same result so long as Biden doesn’t croak.

DeSantis hasn't even taken a clear position on whether Trump lost in 2020 or not.

How freakin' hard is it to admit Trump lost? These GQP snowflakes need a safe space from the big bad question!? Can no one in the Grand Old Pushy (meow) Party summon the cojones to at least answer the easy dang question with some question(s)? For instance:

If Trump had actually won the 2020 election, wouldn't he obviously be precluded by the Twenty-Second Amendment of the Constitution from being elected again? You think Trump has even read the United States Constitution?

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

Amendment XXII, United States Constitution

*
The amendment prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again. If Trump won the election in 2020, that would obviously make him constitutionally ineligible to be elected a third time in 2024. Any more questions?

But by announcing, DeSantis has now made it official -- the race for the Republican nomination is now a two-man race.

Meet the new guy... same as the old guy.

Donald and McDonald:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIe7sb9QWQ

It's hysterical to watch these clowns.

Tonight, I'm playing nothing but Tina and friends - simply the best, indeed!

Love, love, love that song and video!

In this same context, I was again puzzled at the pundit-speak nonsense you inserted, possibly under the pundit contract:

"Trump himself could implode in any number of ways, either self-inflicted or from external forces (such as his many legal woes)."

Wait, what? Trump could implode - again? again? again? He's been imploding or about to implode or at risk of imploding, since 2015, but only in pundits' minds. He's always about to implode. But he never does. And I suggest he never will, for the same reason that DeSantis can't realistically attack Trump to establish his credibility as an anti-Trump but Trumpy candidate.

Trumpian implosion is not something to count on. It's not something to mention when speculating on the 2024 presidential race, if one wants to be taken seriously.