The non-Eagle Joe Walsh will challenge Trump for the GOP nomination. Walsh was a former Trumpist, echoing the same racist, sexist trolling that the current president does. He's an odious shitsack of a human being.
He's doing this, most likely, as a grift to make money off Very Concerned Conservatives who don't like Trump's obvious ignorance. He could be trying to set himself up as the 2024 nominee, if Trump gets walloped in 2020.
Joe Walsh is not your friend.
However...
With the exception of Herbert Hoover, every incumbent president since 1900 who lost has a strong intra-party challenger. Taft had Teddy Roosevelt. LBJ dropped out. Ford had Reagan. Carter had Teddy Kennedy. Bush had Buchanan. The only time I can recall a president being re-elected despite a strong primary challenge was Truman in '48.
There is nothing admirable about Joe Walsh. Maybe....MAYBE...he had a Road to Damascus moment and realizes the errors of his past ways. I'm skeptical.
I welcome, however, his entry into the GOP primary. When he loses by only getting 10-15% of the vote (if that), he will prove once and for all that Trump is not a sui generis phenomenon streaking across the sky like a comet. He IS the modern GOP. And if he weakens him for the general election, so much the better.
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