[Trump] correctly understood that the time was finally ripe for a run in 2016. One of the main reasons he was able to win that year is that the left didn’t have their full apparatus in place, probably because they underestimated his strength and the public’s dislike for their own favored candidate, Hillary Clinton.

They did not make that error in 2020, and they will not make it in 2024 no matter who runs. People who say that the destructive, manipulative, perhaps fraudulent, and “lawfare”-heavy tools of the left will be mounted against anyone who runs on the GOP ticket are correct.

That said, Trump has a lot of baggage that make him an especially rich target.