Posted on 10/21/2022 3:18:14 PM PDT by cotton1706
News that Ben Sasse would likely be leaving the U.S. Senate to become president of the University of Florida has aroused varied commentary—most of it critical of Sasse. But one take has probably been underrated—Sasse’s exodus is merely the latest example of how Trump has vanquished an entire generation of once-promising young conservative stars from politics.
Think about it. When Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, the Republican Party was about to field what was then seen as an impressive and diverse array of future young conservative stars. The names included Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and Sen. Ted Cruz. (There was also Rand Paul and Chris Christie, among others—though they fall just outside the Gen-X category.) While I might not compare them to the quarterback class of 1983 (John Elway, Jim Kelly, and Dan Marino), the field felt pretty stacked at the time.
Take Jindal, for example. He was the first Indian-American governor, he had been a congressman, and he had served as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (among other jobs). And he was just 46 years old! Today, he sells aluminum siding in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Okay, I’m kidding. I have no idea what he’s doing—and that’s precisely my point.
Half of them were humiliated and eventually co-opted by Trump (Rubio and Cruz), while the other half were essentially pushed out of electoral politics (Jindal and Walker)—for the time being, at least.
And then, there were other rising stars on the bench who didn’t run for president in 2016. Take Nikki Haley, the then-governor of South Carolina. After endorsing Rubio in the primaries (and attacking Trump), she miraculously managed to not only become Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, but also get out relatively unscathed.
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Nothings as funny as reading Sasse failure. I’ll bet he either doesn’t get the job or is forced out after he gives up his senate seat.
All of these people sabotaged their future by following advisors and not voters
Many of the GOP politicians seem not interested in such a stance. And many of them apparently want to be friends with the media, the Democrats, and the enemies of the USA. And those three classes will never be friendly with people who support the United States. I think they hate this country and the patriots who love it.
I don’t think they hate the country.
They are just used to getting along and going along and the trump aggressive positions threatens their long held views of what a politician should be. So people like Bush never attack their opponents. And of course they get creamed at every opportunity.
Meanwhile trump knows that being aggressive can win popular support. The down side is that trumps acidic approach can turn off people who would otherwise support his policies. Only time will tell if he will be successful getting all the necessary voters he needs as a minority party to succeed.
He also paved the way for DeSantis by clearing out those losers if and when the “Orange God King” ( from the article) stands aside
Maybe for the first time in 30 years, people see a different battle line. I can’t help but hear Andrew Brietbart saying that “The enemy isn’t just the far left progressives, but the people on the right who don’t hold the same values and will not fight for them” Those words are prophetic and true. However, the real battle lines were not even seen by him. The real battle is the taxpayer versus uncontrollable Federal Government. The system is rigged, in that government keeps growing and ursurping powers given to the people and the states. Money and power have slipped from the people to FedGov, and it’s being used to silence us.
LOL. Ha ha. Sasse. Good riddance. And anyone else that abandoned Trump on election night and the weeks to follow. I have no use for the never Trumpers. For National Review. For Faux News. Jonah Goldberg. Pence. All of them can spin in hell for all I care.
Trump’s biggest crime, in the minds of the political establishment of this country, is that he revealed how feckless, corrupt and incompetent they are.
“diverse array” ... ranging all the way from lying traitors to lying assistant Democrats ...
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.That is goal #15 on the list of 45 stated communist goals for the USA, entered into the Congressional record back in 1963.
Well said!
As a UF alum, all I can say is, better Gainesville than Washington DC.
The libs’ heads at UF are exploding with Sasse coming there.
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All hail President Trump! Until at last, he threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the mountainside!
“how Trump has vanquished an entire generation of once-promising young conservative stars from politics.”
The Daily Beast’s definition of a Conservative is an assistant Democrat. Bwahahahaha
Almost all of those politicians that hate the country are democrats, mostly blacks and their white fellow travelers like Biden , et Al.
Bushes don’t hate the country.
The fact that you can’t stand the rinos is no evidence that they hate the country.
NeoCons were never conservative. They were either Trotskyites or simple grifters.
The faster we eliminate them from positions of power the better it is for the GOP and all of America.
On what planet was Chris Christie and Nikki Haley ever conservative “stars”? What a joke. The only one on that list that I had high expectations were Scott Walker and Paul LePage. They both have disappeared from national politics. We need to get rid of Cocaine Mitch and his bitch in the house, McCarthy. /spit
Rotund Chris Christie has never been conservarive. Only a far left outfit like the Daily Beast thinks Christie is a conservative.
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