Your first paragraph and your second paragraph are at odds with each other.
If he truly intends ‘not to fail this country’ there is no need to ‘push’ him.
I think that you don’t believe your second paragraph any more than I do.
In fact, now that I re-read it, the second part of your first paragraph is at odds with the first part. He can’t be ‘pushed’ and I think you and most everyone else using that line understand that too.
I won't give up and OBL must go 1st.