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Will Trump Run?
Zubu Brothers ^ | 6-4-2022 | Victor Davis Hanson, op-ed via Townhall.com

Posted on 06/03/2022 10:03:39 PM PDT by blam

Trumpology

Former President Donald Trump has signaled he will announce his presidential intentions after the November midterm elections. Yet his record of endorsements is quite mixed. By the sheer numbers of winning primary candidates his stamp of approval is impressive, but in a few of the most important races, not so much.

The disaster that is the Biden Administration has been a godsend for Trump. Had President Joe Biden simply plagiarized the successful Trump agenda, there would have followed no border disaster, no energy crisis, no hyperinflation, and no disastrous flight from Afghanistan.

Had Biden followed through on his “unity” rhetoric, he could have lorded over Trump’s successful record as his own, while contrasting his Uncle-Joe ecumenicalism with supposed Trump’s polarization.

Of course, serious people knew from the start that was utterly impossible. A cognitively challenged Biden was a captive of ideologues. Thus, he was bound to pursue an extremist agenda that could only end as it now has — in disaster and record low polls.

Still, how ironic that the Biden catastrophe revived a Trump candidacy. Biden likely will cause the Democrats to lose Congress. His pick of a dismal Kamala Harris as vice president has likely ensured, for now, fewer viable Democratic presidential candidates in 2024.

So, will Trump run?

Some logic might dictate that Trump not try a second campaign. He would be 79. The recent record of doddering septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians — Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein — has warned Americans that one’s late 70s certainly are not, as the Baby Boomer generation may try to hype, the “new 50s.”

In addition, Trump’s old and new business ventures would take further and greater hits.

His family would again be targeted and unfairly maligned.

An otherwise nihilist progressive and media agenda would reawaken solely to destroy Trump — not his policies against which the Left has offered nothing of substance.

The Trump MAGA legacy is now largely institutionalized.

All Republican candidates will run on secure borders, energy independence, deregulation, Jacksonian foreign policy, a populist, middle-class, nationalism, and deterrence against China — albeit with much-needed new emphasis on destructive deficit spending.

Candidates like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, (R-Ark.,) are all close with or have worked for Trump and would, more or less, carry though the Trump agenda.

The Trump record itself between 2017 and 2021 would be assessed more positively, especially in comparison to what preceded and followed it, and with Trump in retirement.

On the other hand, in 2016 the Republican field was also hailed as a dream team. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was acclaimed as the hands-on pro who ran a purple state, battling successfully public-employee unions and left-wing monied special interests.

We know how that field ended.

Trump supporters would counter that a wiser Trump would hit the ground running. He would likely not recruit disloyal outliers or Republican Party apparatchiks.

Much less would he trust the ossified hierarchy of the FBI, CIA, DIA, CDC, NIH, or any of the other alphabetic, deep-state soups.

The Trump base would add that a non-Trump Trump candidate would never endure, much less brawl against, left-wing madness. They would claim that avoiding cul-de-sac spats while doubling down on the Trump agenda sounds nice — in the fashion that, theoretically, there could be sunshine without the sun.

In the end, none of the above considerations will likely matter.

Instead, the outcome of the midterms will tell a lot. A clear but not overwhelming Republican win will likely discourage Trump and empower his critics.

But a historic blowout will spur Trump. In the end, even if most Republicans would prefer he not run, they will likely vote for him over the hard-left alternative.

As for the Democratic landscape, it will not be the case that Joe Biden may choose to run. He will not run because the decision will not be his.

Even if he manages to last another two years in office, Democratic grandees know his cognitive faculties are eroding rapidly. They read polls and know what his non compos mentis optics have done to their party.

These same interests are just as terrified of Senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Those two believe that the Biden disaster was not due to his embrace of hard socialism, but to his insufficient embrace of socialism.

Given the poverty of alternatives, all sorts of names will arise, from Mike Bloomberg-like billionaires and Michelle Obama to most of those dismal 2020 primary retreads.

In the end, a Republican nominee can win who convincingly promises a secure border, a pathway to a balanced budget, energy independence, a crackdown on crime, and a strong, nonpolitical military with a commitment to missile defense.

And the nominee would have to do all that neither with gratuitous insults nor playing by wishy-washy Marquess of Queensberry rules against those whose toxic agendas here and abroad have created the present disaster.


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KEYWORDS: desantis2024; election; election2024; pdjt; president; running; trump; trumpology
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To: toddausauras

What’s his record? They didn’t show it? Who has a better record? Trump candidates or Bernie candidates?


21 posted on 06/04/2022 4:52:38 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: NetAddicted

I hope you are right.


22 posted on 06/04/2022 5:05:27 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: blam

I see a Great Depression coming, Biden being the modern day Hoover. The Congress held by the GOP and WH held by the Dems and President a early Lame Duck and isolated I see the economy crashing like not what we have ever seen in our lifetimes. The last great Depression did not officially end till 2nd Eisenhower admin and if had not been for WW2 would have carried on till the 60’s...


23 posted on 06/04/2022 5:14:47 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I agree.


24 posted on 06/04/2022 5:18:51 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: blam

The problem is the people will run under Trumps policy but if they won they could likely be deep state themselves and never follow through. At 80 Trump will have to take America on his back and put his policies back in place while taking on the deep state that will be making things up and looking to impeach him over nothing. The house has to be cleaned from top to bottom. FBI and DOJ needs to be cleaned out. These corrupt politicians need to be out of office. And how do we know even the Trump approved are not deep state. If the mid terms are not tampered with he will run for sure. We take the house and senate and they could start investigating things that will make some politicians fold up and go home so they aren’t arrested. DeSantis would be the second best candidate but Florida would be screwed without him.

It depends on mail in ballots. If allowed in the swing states then they will cheat and do the same thing as 2020 and there will be evidence of the fraud but just like 2020 it will never see the light of day because the media won’t show it. The dems have a perfect set up.


25 posted on 06/04/2022 6:12:05 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: blam
More importantly, will the GOP allow him to run?
26 posted on 06/04/2022 6:44:03 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them)
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To: blam

Biden catastrophe revived a Trump candidacy.

It’s going to be a media democrat propaganda war full fight mode required.


27 posted on 06/04/2022 9:49:41 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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