I don't know if this is a good thing or not, but my brain is almost happy when these Trump wackadoos keep primarying more "traditional" politicians because the wackadoos are typically so over the top that they can't really navigate the political process in as meaningful a way as someone like Cheney may have been able to do. On the flip s…
I don't know if this is a good thing or not, but my brain is almost happy when these Trump wackadoos keep primarying more "traditional" politicians because the wackadoos are typically so over the top that they can't really navigate the political process in as meaningful a way as someone like Cheney may have been able to do. On the flip side, that is a big reason why I'm way more terrified of a DeSantis candidacy than I am of Trump running again.
I used to root for the idiots to win their primaries because it improved the chances of my preferred candidates winning. I don't anymore because sometimes a stupid and horrible human actually gets elected and does real damage. And at this point the stupid and horrible are actually driving Republican's cruel priorities. Agreed on DeSantis--being similar in demagoguery to Trump, but more politically astute is scary.
Thirded re DeSantis. I mentioned this in my longer standalone but per Heather Cox Richardson, Alex Jones has officially announced he's switched his support to DeSantis from Trump. This is important, and others will do so too. The 2024 GOP primary will be batshit crazy regardless of whether Trump runs, but should he run (and all odds are that he will, unless he's in jail, and even then he might pull a Eugene Debs... man how about THAT comparison), they'll need to conduct debates wearing straitjackets and in a rubber room. Anyway, as I wrote elsewhere, I'm pretty convinced at this point that the Democrats who run the election machinery would rather run against the damaged loser Trump than DeSantis, or Noem, or whoever else "rising" star in the GOP might shoot for the nomination.
They absolutely want to run against Trump rather than a "real" politician. The Democrat machine tipped their hand this past election cycle when they actually funded ads that almost supported the wackiest of wackadoos in the Republican primaries.
For example, in PA, Democrat governor candidate Josh Shapiro's campaign ran ads that were like "A vote for Doug Mastriano is a vote for Trump" (For those not from PA, Mastriano is a legit crazy person who was 100% in DC on 1/6 and very possibly stormed the Capitol and was recently ask by the Congressional committee to be deposed but refused to go. Also has some insane views on topics like election integrity, where he bragged that if he wins, PA will never have another Democrat in office, and abortion, which he says the death of the mother is still not cause for abortion)
Ratfucking! I do love it. Remember when McCaskill in Missouri elevated Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin through the MO GOP primary, and hung on to her seat for another six years? It works. Sometimes.
I sure hope it works this time, too, because given the makeup of Pennsylvania (Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Kentucky in the middle), a Republican governor will turn the state into a dystopia VERY quickly
They tried to do it again in Missouri with that scumbag Greitens (I should probably mention at this point that I don't live in MIssouri, I just read about elections a lot) but he was so odious, not even Democratic stealth efforts could put him over.
Fetterman looks pretty good but, yeah, the governor's race in PA needs to absolutely not go to Mastriano.
I don't know if this is a good thing or not, but my brain is almost happy when these Trump wackadoos keep primarying more "traditional" politicians because the wackadoos are typically so over the top that they can't really navigate the political process in as meaningful a way as someone like Cheney may have been able to do. On the flip side, that is a big reason why I'm way more terrified of a DeSantis candidacy than I am of Trump running again.
I used to root for the idiots to win their primaries because it improved the chances of my preferred candidates winning. I don't anymore because sometimes a stupid and horrible human actually gets elected and does real damage. And at this point the stupid and horrible are actually driving Republican's cruel priorities. Agreed on DeSantis--being similar in demagoguery to Trump, but more politically astute is scary.
Thirded re DeSantis. I mentioned this in my longer standalone but per Heather Cox Richardson, Alex Jones has officially announced he's switched his support to DeSantis from Trump. This is important, and others will do so too. The 2024 GOP primary will be batshit crazy regardless of whether Trump runs, but should he run (and all odds are that he will, unless he's in jail, and even then he might pull a Eugene Debs... man how about THAT comparison), they'll need to conduct debates wearing straitjackets and in a rubber room. Anyway, as I wrote elsewhere, I'm pretty convinced at this point that the Democrats who run the election machinery would rather run against the damaged loser Trump than DeSantis, or Noem, or whoever else "rising" star in the GOP might shoot for the nomination.
They absolutely want to run against Trump rather than a "real" politician. The Democrat machine tipped their hand this past election cycle when they actually funded ads that almost supported the wackiest of wackadoos in the Republican primaries.
For example, in PA, Democrat governor candidate Josh Shapiro's campaign ran ads that were like "A vote for Doug Mastriano is a vote for Trump" (For those not from PA, Mastriano is a legit crazy person who was 100% in DC on 1/6 and very possibly stormed the Capitol and was recently ask by the Congressional committee to be deposed but refused to go. Also has some insane views on topics like election integrity, where he bragged that if he wins, PA will never have another Democrat in office, and abortion, which he says the death of the mother is still not cause for abortion)
Ratfucking! I do love it. Remember when McCaskill in Missouri elevated Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin through the MO GOP primary, and hung on to her seat for another six years? It works. Sometimes.
I sure hope it works this time, too, because given the makeup of Pennsylvania (Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Kentucky in the middle), a Republican governor will turn the state into a dystopia VERY quickly
They tried to do it again in Missouri with that scumbag Greitens (I should probably mention at this point that I don't live in MIssouri, I just read about elections a lot) but he was so odious, not even Democratic stealth efforts could put him over.
Fetterman looks pretty good but, yeah, the governor's race in PA needs to absolutely not go to Mastriano.