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How Republicans Will Elect Biden 2.0 in 2024
“Biden 2.0” is a stand-in for some Democrat figurehead of the Party of Death and Destruction (D). It could be Biden (D). It could be Harris (D). Maybe gruesome Newsome (D). Doesn’t matter, I predict we’ll have one of them, and it will be because “a majority [or, at least, a plurality] of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him.”
This is a similar dynamic to the Republican’s Taft-Roosevelt split that produced probably the most destructive presidency of the 20th century — Woodrow Wilson (D) — followed closely by FDR (D) and LBJ (D) (notice a pattern?).
Dan Gelernter spelled it out masterfully earlier in the month in Trump Was a Mistake, and now speaks for me in The Coming Split.
But, despite the obvious differences, we’re heading for a 1912-repeat, in which the Republican Party ignores its own voters. The Republican machine has no intention of letting us choose Trump again: He is not a uniparty team player. They’d rather lose an election to the Democrats, their brothers in crime, than win with Trump.
I especially appreciate his points here [emphasis mine]:
I’m sure I’ll be accused of being a shill for the Democrats here, and as far as I’m concerned that’s as credible as being accused of shilling for Russia these days. I’m not suggesting you have to do what I do, either. But I have no intention of supporting a Republican Party that manifestly contravenes the desires of its voters. The RNC can pretend Trump isn’t loved by the base anymore, that he doesn’t have packed rallies everywhere he goes. But I’m not buying it: Talk to Republican voters anywhere outside the Beltway, and it is obvious that he is admired and even loved by those who consider themselves “ordinary” Americans.
Mitch McConnell put cement boots on the Republican party and pushed it into the Potomac with this line: “providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans.”
In response, I’ll quote a different Mc: “Nuts!” — General McAuliffe
Trump may be our General Patton and the Third Army of his voters the only force that can save America from Biden 2.0.
MAGA!
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And his side of the party will do nothing to secure the elections. Our side needs to be big pain in the butt for the other side of the party.
No, apparently if everyone else gets out of his way and lets him glide into the nomination for 2024, Trump will magically circumvent the rigged rules of the rigged game. It’s amazing, I grew up Catholic, but never thought the savior was going to come back in my lifetime, and as a Queens real estate prospector turned carnival barker. Wild times.
And yet, that hasn’t stopped all the assertions that Trump is done and can’t win — which began a couple months ago.
Given that I don’t trust the people making those assertions, I’m not trusting those assertions either.
Reality is surprising.
The question is, let’s say that Trump does somehow become the 2024 Presidential Candidate for the GOP. Will the GOP respect the will of the voters in choosing him? Or will they work to undercut him again?
Gary has already pointed out ties to Trump had an impact. We are sick of being called whiners. That is a leftie tactic to cut off debate. Isn’t working anymore.
It is why the Democrats attack our guys so much. Our voters are easy to wear down until they say just make him go away.
The hate Trump, they hate Cruz, they hate anyone who rocks their boat.
During the 2020 primary season, some state Republican parties declared that there would be no primary. Trump would not have to face any challengers, he got some state delegates automatically. So yes, the party did push for an outcome and it was in Trump’s favor.
I’m not sure if State Republican Parties are necessarily equivalent to the DC-type Establishment.
For example, the Alaska Republican Party censured both Murkowski, and McConnell.
I expect a replay of the 2016 primary season. In almost every state where Trump didn’t win he declared the primary election to be rigged and demanded to be awarded the delegates, or at least be given a new election. Few people took him seriously then, but I expect next time every Republican primary election not won by Trump will be widely denounced as fraudulent.
Maybe it was a reasonable assumption, considering how the Democrat primaries and convention seemed to be rigged against Sanders.
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It isn’t the Democrats that have me wishing Trump would go away. That’s on him – and his age. Can we get someone who isn’t elderly, pushing eighty, please?!
This is an excellent post. I have a couple of thoughts. President Trump generates a stronger reactions that any other politician I have seen during my adult life. (I was only 12 years old when Barry Goldwater ran in 1964.) President Trump got the most number of votes of any Republican in 2020, second only to the number of votes for Biden, who was running as the Anti-Trump.
I watched closely how the Democrats nominated Biden in 2020. The overwhelming strong emotion was a blind, raging, irrational, white-hot hatred of President Trump. No matter what, Democrats were dedicated to beating President Trump in the general election. I think that many Democrats were fond of Bernie Sanders and supported his views on the economy. But they concluded that President Trump would beat Sanders. So, in the couple of days after the South Carolina primary, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar both withdrew from the race and endorsed Biden, not because they loved Biden, but because they were convinced that Sanders could not beat Trump.
What I think will happen is this. A dozen or so Republicans will run. But, if candidates don’t come in the top 4 in Iowa, and the top 3 in New Hampshire, they will withdraw. More accurately stated, I think that a majority of Republicans will vote for the strongest Republican left, because they will accurately conclude that Trump cannot win.
Who will it be? DeSantis is at the poll position, and he has been a superb Governor of Florida. However, it has not been shown that he will wear well in a national campaign. I believe that our best candidate would be a Governor, as members of Congress have gelded by President Trump. Which Governor? I don’t know, but Governors DeSantis, Youngkin, Abbott, Kemp, Ducey, Noem, and Sununu would all be great. While I love Governor Hogan, I think his refusal to vote for Trump in 2020 will be fatal to him. Who I would want the most would be Mitch Daniels, but I don’t hear a drumbeat for him.
I just read Gelernter’s articles. He’s right in the main, and everybody knows it. (Even the NT’s and progs know it.) Most of us are still too scared to jump, but it wouldn’t take much to trigger a preference cascade.
This is why two thirds of our government being elected by the same fashion is so terrifyingly stupid. Senators are as easy to rig as president elections. The president is still easier than controlling the senate, but they already control the key areas to get both.
I don’t think that I know it, but see my comments above. Is the idea that, if Trump is not the nominee. lots of us will take our ball and go home? Ergo, Biden or his facsimile wins?
Sununu did win his relection.
I can speak only for myself, but it the nominee is someone such as Hogan, Christie, JEB!, Kasich, I’ll leave the top slot blank. Count me in for DeSantis and maybe for a couple others.
It’s harder to rig the house, which are district elections, than it is to rig president and senate, which are state races.
State races only need one highly populace, low turnout location to rig the entire state. To win state legislatures and federal house, you have to corrupt every district you need to get a majority.
That is more expensive and requires more people than what is need for president and senators (as currently elected).
Which is one of the main reasons for returning the election of President to the legislatures.
On the national level, Republicans don’t do squat.
Nor do Democrats.
To win the Presidency a candidate Must appeal to the indie voters.
Or else the candidate’s party Must ensure that our broken election system is hackable.
Ever wonder why it is if Democrats did not cheat in Arizona, that that party’s members label anyone saying they did as conspiracy theorists?
After all, if the Dems didn’t play games in Maricopa County, they would willingly have wanted an audit to go forward. (They didn’t – they opposed Lake and her supporters’ efforts.)
I disliked McCain, Romney, and Trump. But each was selected by Republican primary voters. It’s not like prior to 2016 the candidates were chosen by an elite, secret cabal and 2016 was the first time Joe Sixpack was allowed to vote. The Republican base gave us each of those candidates.
I don’t have any problem with a blank if the nomination is not to one’s liking. I’m just trying to figure out where the line is drawn, and if it’s only Trump that’s on one side of it.
Maybe, but with Trump’s election and his actions on our (ordinary American’s) behalf, and the corresponding actions/inactions of McCain and Romney, it has become crystal clear that establishment-approved candidates are not on our side, but are on the side of the uniparty and their own self-interest.
I didn’t know just how much I despised Romney until he became a senator. What a loathsome man.
It’s going on seven years ago so my memory might be off, but I remember one of the 17 in 2015 or 2016 dropping out of the race in favor of the few polling higher than he was because it was imperative to stop Trump. Have that stuff happen again and my bet is that a lot of people will be Only-Trump.