Get the popcorn : Welcome to the Republican crack-up
Leading centrist GOP figures are out to challenge Donald Trump, the first to throw his hat in the ring for the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential race. But a political bloodbath would just pave the way for Trump’s third shot at the presidency.
IT’S difficult to recall the number of times that journalists and pundits (including yours truly) have predicted the speedy political demise of Donald Trump. Hey, I’ll bet you my Apple stocks that he won’t be around next week!
Starting on the eve of the 2015 Republican presidential primaries with Candidate Trump insisting that Senator and Vietnam War veteran John McCain was “not a war hero” through to his references to a female body part in the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, to the many political and personal scandals and ugly public scenes that dominated his presidency (including two congressional impeachments), not to mention his four-word vocabulary and his bouts of racism, nativism, sexism, homophobia, and conspiracy theories, Trump proved to be the ultimate survivor.
And then there was the violent attack his fans unleashed on the US Capitol that he helped ignite, and his continuing efforts to overrun the results of the 2020 presidential election and his promotion of the big lie that it was “stolen” from him. Trump’s political career was over, we concluded, confident that he would soon be indicted and sent off to jail.
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