Monday, November 09, 2020

Don't Bother, They're Here

At this point if he doesn't steal the silver and try to set the place on fire I think I'll consider it a victory. But what I really came here for is this: This is not amateur hour. This is a clown show. With amateur clowns. Trump already discussing 2024 may mean a Trumpless GOP is impossible: But that does depend on NY and DOJ (and others?) not prosecuting Trump criminally, to begin with. And then it depends on "normal" not being comfortable for the majority of Americans: The election we just had was a victory for "normal": Even Nixon had to remake himself, and it took him 8 years in the wilderness to do it. He was no longer the Commie hunter he had been, in '68. Not as a public persona, anyway. If he isn't in jail or in trial, Trump will be 78 in 2024. He's already faltering physically: obese, his mental capacity publicly diminished. He may not be capable of running in 2024. And the country is certainly less likely to be enthralled with him. Biden will be 82 at the end of his first term.  Interest in another octagenerian in the White House may well be at low ebb.  

Maybe those predictions of the death of the GOP weren't wrong; maybe it's just going to take longer than predicted.

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