Revenge Term

I was reading an article in the Guardian (I know, I know) called “A revenge term: what would another four years of Trump look like?”  It contained such lines as,

• “I think it would be the end of our country as we know it,” Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, said on the ABC talk show The View this week. “And I don’t say that lightly.”
• “Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University in Washington, said: “It would be a disaster for America. He’s already made it very clear that his second term is going to be a revenge term. He’s going to use the power of government to persecute and prosecute his enemies and to cement his own power, or at least the power of his allies and cronies.”

It really was a great read.  All the talk of revenge and firing the Deep State was wonderfully exciting.  And it was just funny that they can’t see that revenge is exactly what the Justice Department has been engaged in for the last three years.

But then I knew I had to get back to the real world.  Well, sort of.  After another meaningless Republican debate, Senator Tim Scott has ended his campaign.  That makes sense, I guess.  I don’t think he ever got higher than 4%.  The amusing part of the primary is how excited the establishment types at Fox News get about Nikki Haley, “She’s surging in the polls.”  What, from 3% to 6%?  And they talk about how well she’d run against Joe Biden.  They’ve got to be kidding.  If Nikki Haley is the Republican candidate none of Trump’s 60% will even bother to show up to vote.  Haley may be a Republican.  In fact, she’s a Jeb Bush Republican.  But conservative she is not.  And to be fair America already had a chance to vote for that kind of Republican in 2008 and 2012 with John McCain and Mitt Romney.  But eight years of George W Bush back at the turn of the century showed us why RINOs aren’t a good idea.

But they’ll keep pushing her as if it’s some kind of brilliant idea, “She’s a woman!  She’s non-white!  She loves abortion!  We’ll get the woman and black vote, right?”  Ah, if only she were a lesbian, then they’d have the trifecta.  Well, half a loaf, right?

But I think the Republican debate thing is just about played out.  Ramaswamy is doing the Trump act, and give him his due, a lot of what he says is true but let’s face it.  He’s not going to be Trump’s VP.  I did hear that talk that Tucker Carlson would make a good VP pick.  And maybe he would.  Not that I think he’d accept.  I think he’s smart enough to know that his life would become much less fun if he became Vice President.  But in terms of who would be preferable I think that would be Ron DeSantis and from what I can tell Trump can’t stand him.  Hopefully this time Trump picks someone more courageous that that empty suit Pence.

Well, I won’t belabor the current situation in the 2024 race.  This is a check-in.  We’ve got a whole year for Joe Biden to fall below 25% in the polls.  No need to rush it now.  We can savor it later.  “Revenge term,” I like the sound of it.