I'm often disappointed to see that leadership candidates I somewhat like often don't just not win (that's overwhelmingly likely), but get absurdly low levels of the vote. If Vivek got 10% that could've helped change the whole conversation, but at 8% it was a distant, distant fourth.
Reminds me of Ron Paul back in 2008. Maybe you think he's not a good candidate for president, but a lot of people were really excited by him and ended up with a miniscule percentage of the vote. The only thing there is I think after 2008 he won in the end because the liberatarians were positioned as a much more powerful faction within the republicans.
Reminds me of Ron Paul back in 2008. Maybe you think he's not a good candidate for president, but a lot of people were really excited by him and ended up with a miniscule percentage of the vote. The only thing there is I think after 2008 he won in the end because the liberatarians were positioned as a much more powerful faction within the republicans.
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I've said many times the many reasons I think Trump isn't a great candidate (He's not the devil by any means and there's a lot to say that's positive about him, but he just isn't as competent as people give him credit for and his missteps as president should show that regardless of the MSM's treatment of him), but I have to admit, given the deeply corrupt tactics being used against him, I sort of hope he wins in a landslide just to spite the people using those tactics.
There's too many parallels to today and the fall of the roman republic, but I think most people hope that it would be more like the fall of the roman empire.
In another thread, I'm writing now about how really no matter what Trump is a short-term thing. If he wins, it's 4 years and he's in the dustbin of history. If he loses, it's 4 years of someone else and he's still likely in the dustbin of history because he's not getting any younger.
Trump was the GOP's successful solution to the 2008 collapse of the party in 2016. Thing is, at the executive level they're going to need to go through that process again once they can't just vote for Trump.
I'm concerned that it could be someone way more extreme than Trump since he was elected to break the establishment and he didn't, but as long as he doesn't screw anything up (which isn't a given -- it's really hard to stay active without putting your foot in your mouth hard over years and years) he could be the guy instead. But you might have said the same about DeSantis until he showed he's just a freight train that happened to land on the right track but is going to barrel his way right off the bridge.
Trump was the GOP's successful solution to the 2008 collapse of the party in 2016. Thing is, at the executive level they're going to need to go through that process again once they can't just vote for Trump.
I'm concerned that it could be someone way more extreme than Trump since he was elected to break the establishment and he didn't, but as long as he doesn't screw anything up (which isn't a given -- it's really hard to stay active without putting your foot in your mouth hard over years and years) he could be the guy instead. But you might have said the same about DeSantis until he showed he's just a freight train that happened to land on the right track but is going to barrel his way right off the bridge.