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This is an outstanding piece. Col Schlichter remains one of the best contemporary conservative writers.

Let’s have a primary and decide! ...he should be vetted by the people. A primary sharpens the eventual winner while testing all the candidates. Trump has to answer some tough questions. What has he learned from his mistakes? Will he screw up personnel again? Does he intend to subject America to years more of Trump drama, and what makes him think voters want that again? What, exactly, is his plan to win key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in 2024 (It’s a fair question to ask DeSantis and any other aspirants too)? Here’s the thing – I do not see a clear path for Trump to get to 270 electoral votes in the general as of today, though that can change quickly, so that’s the big question he and every other candidate has got to answer because we cannot afford another term of these communist bastards wrecking our country.

For the record, I'm in the "Trump's Achilles is his HR skills, and they limit MAGA." I'm not against the man...I want him to go to HR Rehab and fix his problem.

But yes...primaries to a candidate are like heat and pressure to coal on the way to becoming a diamond. Let the games begin!

Trump was always a prix fixe menu with no substitutions; you cannot have a Trump owning the libs without him also tweeting about Rosie O’Donnell. He saved our country in 2016. The idea that 2022 was all his fault is nonsense. It was only partly his. There were plenty of other malefactors and plenty of unrelated screw-ups that we need to identify and address in the next 24 months (particularly adapting to the new mail-in extended voting model). Trump should not be exiled by the establishment or the commentators just because a lot of the same people who never liked him anyway still want him gone. If he does not run, he should either bow out because he wants to bow out, or he should be tossed out by Republican primary voters at the ballot box. If he gets the GOP nomination, everyone should support him in the general.

Xactly. Let's have the primaries instead of Ryan and McCarthy sneaking around trying to decide for us. That's the way the dems do it. They decide for their voters. Just look at Bernie Sanders. Stolen the nomination and then paid him back with a mansion.