The Left wants Donald Trump on the ballot this fall – the Trump with no internal governor who wrote the mean tweets, the Trump of the (often dishonest or fabricated) media narratives, and especially of the “January 6” of fact, fiction and in between.
But then, so does the GOP.
But which Donald Trump? The business tycoon? The loose cannon that could rope-a-dope either world leaders into agreement, or his own cabinet into distraction? Or the person that focused the economic and social concerns of a whole lot of people – middle America, blue-collar “Red” America, and by the bye more Black and Latino voters than any Republican in two generations, into political action?
The Virginia gubernatorial election showed us a hint: it’s #3. The first two camps barely registered in that fairly meat ‘n potatoes contest.
We’ve got a group of primaries coming up this month – Idaho, and later this month Georgia.
But it started last night, with Ohio’s primaries for Governor and Senate.
And it saw the above-mentioned three camps squaring off:
Was it that voters wanted a businessman? Well, Mike Gibbons was a successful businessman.
Was it that Trump was “the craziest son of a b****” in the room, as Thomas Massie sometimes wondered? Then Josh Mandel was your man.
Or was it the “America First” agenda on the immigration, trade, and foreign policy? If that’s what you thought, then J. D. Vance was your candidate.
And the winner: Vance.
But Vance’s advantage was that he campaigned on the politics he believes in. That’s one of the reasons he was able to campaign so much more than his opponents; he doesn’t need to read from cue cards. It’s why he was able to constantly reiterate his position on the Ukraine war with confidence, even as his opponents got lost while searching for their own views. Much has been made of Vance’s supposed transformation from the author of Hillbilly Elegy to the Senate candidate endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene. He shifted his assessment of Trump, absolutely, but his politics have remained much the same. Even Vance’s vengeful former roommate — who tried to harm his campaign by sharing a text showing that, years ago, Vance made an overheated comparison of Trump to Hitler — ended up proving the point. In that text exchange, Vance was saying that the Republican Party needed to deliver tangible benefits to working-class white people who have migrated into the party. That’s the message he had three years ago, too.
I suspect this is at least part of the reason Big Left is trying to make they hay they are over the leaked Roe decision; the GOP is running on the Trump legacy that’s least convenient to then. .
We’ll wait to see how Idaho and Georgia turn out.
Ohio Republicans Select Syphilis Over Gonorrhea — they are both detestable but Vance at least doesn’t believe his own shtick. I’m not positive about Mandel but I think he actually might.
Vance’s book could have been interesting but ended up moralizing endlessly about poor people’s behavior, now he wants them to vote for him so he can moralize some more, all the while taking the moral high ground of supporting someone he secretly believed could be Hitler. He’s spent years trying to distance himself from angry, addled, white tr@sh and now he shares a stage with Greene and Gaetz. His grandmother would not have approved.
What a joker, Americans will love him.
A post based on the National Review (and Reason) that says mean things about Trump. And like stink on shit, the little weasel appears!
^ Well, good luck to Dolan then.
I sure hope Kemp gets a one-way ticket to has-been land, never heard from again and 2000 mules will be installed as his epitaph.
So, in the DemoCommie primary, anti American P.O.S. rich guy Tim Ryan, took 72% of the vote, leaving 2 black women with like 10% and 12%. Those racist, white supremacy supporting DemoCommies in Ohio, chose a white guy.
All politicians say silly things once in a while.
But when Vance, a politically inexperienced newcomer say something silly, it’s “OMG it’s Hitler speaking at the Nuremberg rally!!”
“Syphilis Over Gonorrhea ” is something I read somewhere earlier this morning.
Not an original thought in the troll’s head.
^ Mild Indigestion Endorses Syphilis
The best democracy money can buy. If you don’t like my principles there are plenty more where those came from. Forget the Marx brothers, they couldn’t put on a performance like this..
^ I see the ol’ excuse about it being 5 o’clock somewhere got taken off the shelf. Along with something else.
^ Another Peter Thiel supporter.
The Thiel-supported American new right wants protectionist policies, enforcement of traditional values and gender roles, and a “national CEO” empowered to take bold action without worrying about slow democratic processes.
My question: how is this vision for America any different from Putinism?
^ I wasn’t making a political statement. I was commenting on your nonsensical attempt at wt.
That said, however, the things you write about Peter Thiel sound interesting and appealing. I don’t know what Putinism is, can you explain?
Lol. A fucking disease vector points a claw. Only you, rAT, would be brainless enough to attempt it.
“The Thiel-supported American new right wants protectionist policies, enforcement of traditional values and gender roles, and a “national CEO” empowered to take bold action”
rAT, that’s one hell of a lot less messy for you vermin than the alternative I’m rooting for.
So far it is definitely Trump’s party in 2022. Kind of amazing for a guy who has been kicked off of Twitter and FB, and is almost as old as Slow Joe Biden.
My prediction is that the Left will continue to underestimate the appeal of Trumpism, leading to an absolute disaster for them in November.
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Shouldn’t this lede read “Thiel-backed candidate wins Ohio Republican Senate primary”?
So . . . Peter Thiel is getting today’s 2 minutes of hate?