I just wanted to burst Tim's fantasy about 2028 (not that he really believes it can happen, but still). It would be wonderful to have two normal parties, but can anyone at this point really envision a world four years from now where Glen Youngkin is the Republican leader? He would have to do a JD Vance-level metamorphosis first. Clearly …
I just wanted to burst Tim's fantasy about 2028 (not that he really believes it can happen, but still). It would be wonderful to have two normal parties, but can anyone at this point really envision a world four years from now where Glen Youngkin is the Republican leader? He would have to do a JD Vance-level metamorphosis first. Clearly there has been an historic tectonic shift in Republican priorities across the board, brought on by a big plurality of entrenched aggrieved voters and their willing enablers. This shift won't just reverse itself if/when Trump loses. Notice how Nikki Haley endorsed Trump, as if it made perfect sense after all the bridge-burning things she said about him previously. The Republicans who haven't endorsed Trump are marginalized "RINOs". For the past nine years I thought a RINO was a non-Trumpist Republican, but they're just irrelevant Republicans now, it seems to me, literally in name only, with nothing else to identify themselves as Republicans. It's the Tucker/JD party, now and going forward. Possibly there will be DeSantis or someone like him running again as the sane option, because that's as sane as it gets now in the modern Republican party. Either you abandon your values like Haley, do semi-authentic MAGA cosplay like Ron, or become MAGAfied like JD and Tucker. Anyone of any note who doesn't abandon their values and suck up, or anyone even marginally less MAGA than Ron, not only didn't speak at this year's Republican convention, they didn't attend (or if they did, no one noticed or cared). The party certainly doesn't care one iota about their previous VP, nor their nominee before Trump and his VP pick, let alone former president Bush and VP Cheney. They’re all considered the past, disrespected and hated. None of this points towards Glen Youngkin, I'm afraid. Sorry Tim!
I just wanted to burst Tim's fantasy about 2028 (not that he really believes it can happen, but still). It would be wonderful to have two normal parties, but can anyone at this point really envision a world four years from now where Glen Youngkin is the Republican leader? He would have to do a JD Vance-level metamorphosis first. Clearly there has been an historic tectonic shift in Republican priorities across the board, brought on by a big plurality of entrenched aggrieved voters and their willing enablers. This shift won't just reverse itself if/when Trump loses. Notice how Nikki Haley endorsed Trump, as if it made perfect sense after all the bridge-burning things she said about him previously. The Republicans who haven't endorsed Trump are marginalized "RINOs". For the past nine years I thought a RINO was a non-Trumpist Republican, but they're just irrelevant Republicans now, it seems to me, literally in name only, with nothing else to identify themselves as Republicans. It's the Tucker/JD party, now and going forward. Possibly there will be DeSantis or someone like him running again as the sane option, because that's as sane as it gets now in the modern Republican party. Either you abandon your values like Haley, do semi-authentic MAGA cosplay like Ron, or become MAGAfied like JD and Tucker. Anyone of any note who doesn't abandon their values and suck up, or anyone even marginally less MAGA than Ron, not only didn't speak at this year's Republican convention, they didn't attend (or if they did, no one noticed or cared). The party certainly doesn't care one iota about their previous VP, nor their nominee before Trump and his VP pick, let alone former president Bush and VP Cheney. They’re all considered the past, disrespected and hated. None of this points towards Glen Youngkin, I'm afraid. Sorry Tim!
Which is good. I view Youngkin as a wolf in a sheep's skin Polartec vest. He is a dangerous phony.