Beren wrote:I'm not sure. Assange will be a perfect martyr and icon, he'll even enjoy it, and he'll be in jail for five years only.
We'll see, people said the same thing about the deplatforming of guys like Gavin Mcinnes and Alex Jones, but in spite of a short-lived boost to their numbers, they have effectively been removed from public discourse to the point that they can't have the same effect on US electoral politics that they did in 2016.
Simply put, Gavin, Alex Jones, Milo, and many others have been stamped out by the "powers that be" just in time for 2020 and now Julian Assange has been added to the list.
Essentially, the social media weapons that got Trump elected have been crushed with the exception of his own twitter feed.
This being the case, Trump's weapons have been reduced to his use of rallies and his manipulation of the media to reach his rust-belt base, but if you haven't noticed, the media has actually caught on to this and drastically reduced coverage of his rallies and twitter rants in comparison to the last time.
In reality, the three reasons Trump will win 2020 is because
1. the Democrats have self-exploded by running the shittiest field in the history of American politics,
2. the economy is doing well, and
3. the media has shit its pants repeatedly (everything from Kavanaugh to Covington to Smollett to Mueller being fine examples).