- Pence In Texas Encourages Residents To Wear Masks Amid Coronavirus Spike
- James Carville: There Is No Chance Trump Will Be Re-Elected
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James Carville is getting more vocal of the possibility that Trump may not run.
ReplyDeletePence's idea that God intends him to become President – overriding theme of this book "The Shadow President"; he is preparing for the Second Coming of Christ. (I have no doubt that Pence, even though having been up to now disgustingly obsequious to Trump, would not hesitate to throw him "under the bus." Trump is a fake evangelical; Pence is the real thing. I would never vote for Trump, but I would also not vote for anyone who flaunts his religion, as does Pence. Such a goody-two-shoes.
Trump might opt to focus on winning a second term, if only because he might be fearful of being tried in court for some of the things he has done.
You may not like Pence, but do the Republicans think that they have a better chance to win with Pence than with Trump?
DeleteThe extreme narcissist Trump is smart enough to know that being president is what keeps him out of legal jeopardy. That's about all he's smart enough to know. Anyway, I can't see him resigning from the presidency without obtaining a pardon or the promise of a pardon from Pence. Trump's inaction regarding protection of the troops in Afghanistan from the Russians has likely cost him whatever vote he was going to get from veterans and war supporters. I can't imagine him being reelected. Of course, he never was going to win in Maryland. Texas and Georgia may well be added to the battleground states he's losing. I can only hope that the Republicans who vote at their convention decide to stay with him so that as many of them as possible can go down with their sinking ship. We need that so that we can elect a Democratic majority to the Senate to go along with the Democratic president and, thus, create the possibility for an improved Supreme Court.
ReplyDeleteRe Michael's comment: I doubt it. Pence is certainly more in line with their evangelical thinking, but he is not as forceful as Trump. It is probably harder to get excited about anyone as wimpy as Pence. Pence is a follower; not a leader.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans will do whatever is in there best interest. At some point they will have to disassociate themselves from Trump. They will have a chance in the Alabama runoff on July 14. A victory by Jeff Sessions will be interpreted as loss for Trump.
ReplyDelete“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents . . . Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements.” Eric Hoffer The True Believer, 1951
ReplyDeleteTwenty-first-century America would probably send Lewis Carroll in search of a reality check. We live in a society in which those most “supreme” in their wisdom and judgment have declared that “corporations are people” and “money is speech,” and we have “democratically” elected as our leader an unabashed carnival barker who kept his show on the road with a little help from his friends in the Russian kleptocracy (former communists no less)! And after having governed by tweet for going on four years, lied as frequently and as effortlessly as he consumed double-cheeseburgers, and sent his family on taxpayer subsidized missions to ensure that his post-presidency remains lucrative for Trump enterprises, he still enjoys the support of the majority of the Republican Party and most of their voters. And he does this by exploiting fear, and its frequent companion hate, which happens to align with the free-market fantasies of some wealthy business people who have managed to undermine democracy by filling legislatures, governors' offices, and school boards with folks who are beholden to them for their continued grip on power. These deep-pocket purveyors of fantasy (a utopia expected to miraculously emerge from the unapologetic exercise of greed and the unfettered pursuit of self-interest, with an approving nod from God Himself) have uncomfortably employed Trump’s services. He makes them nervous. They must know a charlatan when they see one and fear that his public antics could create a backlash that might undermine many of their accomplishments of the last forty years. Would they prefer Mike Pence? It would certainly seem so. But unless they can figure out a better way to further their fantasies—without alienating those MAGA-hat-wearing folks pursuing their own fantasies about putting people like themselves front and center by backing a man who shares with them nothing but a sense of victimhood and an instinctive dislike of things foreign—they’re stuck with Trump.
The Republican best interest is the keep Trump from destroying the party. The upcoming election may be more about keeping the state legislators to control redistricting after the 2020 census. It would be easier if Pence replaces Trump. But even if Trump stays on the ballot, the Republican candidates for the local elections may distance themselves from Trump to survive. Look what happened in North Carolina and Colorado.
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