Candidates matter and Toxic Trump matters. He is utterly poisonous to GOP chances.
RE: Ohio. Look at the vote gap between Trump-backed Vance and the other GOP candidates, he was incredibly far behind them. Look at how Walker is doing compared with Kemp in Georgia. How did Bolduc do compared with Sununu in New Hampshire?
I wonder how much the reappearance of Trump over the last week swung people away from holding their nose and voting for his candidates? There he was, out on the trail, doing down DeSantis, cheap shots at Mike Pence. Why? Because he can’t help it.
With any luck these results are the nail in the coffin for this guy and he won’t bulldoze through the primary. And I hope to goodness he doesn’t run as a third party candidate in 2024.
People interested in a Republican resurgence in 2024 get down to your local primary and vote for the non-Trump candidate.
He’s running Caty. I wish he wouldn’t. I believe Trump served his purpose and it’s time for others to take over (like the guy who swung his state WAY red last night – DeSantis.) But Trump’s not about the good of the country or the good of the party. He’s about the good of Donald Trump.
And I fear we can’t beat him in a primary.
I have to say, I am optimistic seeing the reaction to these results. I see a lot of fingers pointing at Trump. I’m not sure he would win a primary. 2016 he benefitted from being one of a very large primary group and having outsider status. This time around I highly suspect his competition to coalesce around a viable candidate (and I agree, DeSantis is very much the obvious person here, but there are others too) and this will be too much for him.
Yes.
The GOP needs to move on from Trump – and to understand the faults that led to the toxic phenomena. And over on the left, the Dems need to understand their capture by neo-marxist wokery, and move on.
The GOPs problem is classic conservative in form – near worship of an individual patriarch who, it is claimed, will restore great traditions, which have been attacked by moderns. Reminiscent of – Putin; Rev Jim Jones etc
With the Dems, is classic socialism problem – there is no one person at fault, but a collective of moderns hypnotised by a ‘Brave New World’ vision. Reminiscent of Mao’s Red Guard attacking the ‘four olds’ of – old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.
Brian Villanueva
1 year ago
PA faced an impossible choice: a celebrity, daytime TV doctor who had lived in the state for less than 2 years vs. the former mayor of a near ghost town who can no longer string 3 coherent sentences together.
The campaign was incredibly negative on both sides. When I was in PA about 3 weeks ago, the ad running most often on TV was “Dr. Oz tortured puppes!” No wonder people were turned off by the whole thing.
I’ve got to be honest, if I lived in PA, I probably would have stayed home too.
Candidates matter and Toxic Trump matters. He is utterly poisonous to GOP chances.
RE: Ohio. Look at the vote gap between Trump-backed Vance and the other GOP candidates, he was incredibly far behind them. Look at how Walker is doing compared with Kemp in Georgia. How did Bolduc do compared with Sununu in New Hampshire?
I wonder how much the reappearance of Trump over the last week swung people away from holding their nose and voting for his candidates? There he was, out on the trail, doing down DeSantis, cheap shots at Mike Pence. Why? Because he can’t help it.
With any luck these results are the nail in the coffin for this guy and he won’t bulldoze through the primary. And I hope to goodness he doesn’t run as a third party candidate in 2024.
People interested in a Republican resurgence in 2024 get down to your local primary and vote for the non-Trump candidate.
He’s running Caty. I wish he wouldn’t. I believe Trump served his purpose and it’s time for others to take over (like the guy who swung his state WAY red last night – DeSantis.) But Trump’s not about the good of the country or the good of the party. He’s about the good of Donald Trump.
And I fear we can’t beat him in a primary.
I have to say, I am optimistic seeing the reaction to these results. I see a lot of fingers pointing at Trump. I’m not sure he would win a primary. 2016 he benefitted from being one of a very large primary group and having outsider status. This time around I highly suspect his competition to coalesce around a viable candidate (and I agree, DeSantis is very much the obvious person here, but there are others too) and this will be too much for him.
Yes.
The GOP needs to move on from Trump – and to understand the faults that led to the toxic phenomena. And over on the left, the Dems need to understand their capture by neo-marxist wokery, and move on.
The GOPs problem is classic conservative in form – near worship of an individual patriarch who, it is claimed, will restore great traditions, which have been attacked by moderns. Reminiscent of – Putin; Rev Jim Jones etc
With the Dems, is classic socialism problem – there is no one person at fault, but a collective of moderns hypnotised by a ‘Brave New World’ vision. Reminiscent of Mao’s Red Guard attacking the ‘four olds’ of – old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.
PA faced an impossible choice: a celebrity, daytime TV doctor who had lived in the state for less than 2 years vs. the former mayor of a near ghost town who can no longer string 3 coherent sentences together.
The campaign was incredibly negative on both sides. When I was in PA about 3 weeks ago, the ad running most often on TV was “Dr. Oz tortured puppes!” No wonder people were turned off by the whole thing.
I’ve got to be honest, if I lived in PA, I probably would have stayed home too.