“No to Trump in 2024” | Charles Cooke

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When Trump flamed out in 2020 and then carried on with his ludicrous “they stole the election” fantasy, I thought that would be that. Republicans would desert him in droves. Not a bit of it. They doubled down on this man. A loser. Who not only lost his own election but also stuffed up Georgia for the Senate, which went Blue, entirely because of his election malpractice. His fault. Still people love him. I don’t know why.  Charles Cooke tries to prick that bubble. 

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Donald Trump? In 2024? Why on earth would conservatives choose that guy?

I’m serious: Why? Why would we do that when we have a choice? The idea should be absurd, risible, farcical, outré. It should be a punchline, a mania, the preserve of the demented fringe. Politics matters. And because politics matters, it is a bad idea to allow politics to be held hostage by someone who, in his heart of hearts, doesn’t really care. Donald Trump is an extraordinarily selfish man, and he is only too happy to subordinate your interests to his own. Why let him? It is one thing to say, “Well, he may have been a fickle boor, but I liked some of what he did once he was in office”; it’s quite another to put yourself through four more years of the man when you don’t have to. Whatever justification there may have been for picking the “lesser of two evils” in the 2016 or 2020 general election — a justification that was a great deal stronger before Trump refused to accept, and then tried to overturn, the results of the latter — it cannot obtain in 2022. Read on…