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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, April 20, 2023

At What Point Do They Accept It?

 Ron DeSantis is toast. We are seeing the GOP establishment - the very force that was supposed to neuter Trump and move to a "Trump without the baggage" candidate - abandon DeSantis.

There have been media voices on the Right and Left fluffing this guy's profile because they seem to want to believe that the GOP is not actually a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump Steaks. It is. Again, the invaluable Josh Marshall: "The GOP is a failed state and Trump is its warlord."

When someone like Glenn Youngkin looks at what happened to DeSantis, is he going to see this as an opportunity or a warning? I think the later. 

Trump will be the nominee. The election - if Democrats know what they are doing - will be a referendum on Dobbs and January 6th. If it is, Biden wins.

If you're Youngkin, you have to figure that Trump will be dead or in prison by 2028. Why self-immolate?

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