Posted on 05/05/2023 10:33:03 AM PDT by conservative98
As Ronald Reagan might say — there they go again.
The “they” this time around is the Never Trump chorus insisting that not only can’t former President Donald Trump win the 2024 election, but he shouldn’t even be trying.
Whether it’s Bush-cheerleader Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, or, in the same place, Ruth R. Wisse, a professor emerita at Harvard University, or the esteemed Andrew C. McCarthy over at National Review, or more scattered over the political landscape, the Trump naysayers are out in force, predicting, of course, that the former president’s reelection bid is dead in the water — or should be, if it isn’t already.
And they would be wrong.
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As I noted in these pages way back there in 2015, this “Trump can’t win” business has a serious predecessor. That would be from the “Reagan can’t win” crowd in both the media and the Republican Party Establishment during the rise of the actor-turned-California governor. As I noted, the Never Reagan crowd of the day was unhesitating. Some samples to remind:
New York Times: Reagan’s candidacy is “patently ridiculous.”
New Republic: “Reagan is Goldwater revisited…He is a divisive factor in the party.”
Harper’s magazine: “That he should be regarded as a serious candidate for President is a shame and an embarrassment for the country at large to swallow.”
Chicago Daily News: “The trouble with Reagan, of course, is that his positions on the major issues are cunningly phrased nonsense — irrationality conceived and hair-raising in their potential mischief… Here comes Barry Goldwater again, only more so, and at this stage another such debacle could sink the GOP so deep it might never recover.”
Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy said Reagan’s candidacy was “foolhardy” and would lead to a “crushing defeat” for the Republican Party. “It could signal the beginning of the end of our party as an effective force in American political life.”
Former Republican President Gerald Ford said that “Mr. Reagan would be a sure-loser in November.”
There was more of this drivel — oh, so much more.
To his decided credit, Trump persists, paying no attention to this kind of nonsense when applied to him. Nor should he.
Can he win? Of course he can.
But the point here is simple. The Never Trumpers, having not learned their lesson — just as the Never Reagan crowd had not learned theirs — are still out there.
Surprise, surprise.
And the best thing to do is ignore them and move forward.
They keep hoping
There! Fixed it.
Reagan couldn’t win because of ballot harvesting, mail-in voting, and computerized voting machines connected to the internet.
They (the Uniparty) will NOT LET HIM WIN. Period. They will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to stop him. Up to and including something I’m not even going to say.
Didn’t Richard Nixon permanently retire from politics in 1960?
It is a good point.
I think one of the most important points as to why Biden may lose that is not often discussed is the fact that Obama/Biden lost millions of voters between their 2008 and 2012 re-election effort. The 2008 election was rather powerful but an incredible number of voters rejected them in 2012 and they narrowly won.
Ashley Babbitt for example voted for Obama in 2008. He ran on a fake bipartisan notion of “change.” Once the Obama Biden record was established, they started losing voters.
A similar pattern is almost certainly in place now between 2020 and 2024. biden ran as the anti-trump— he is not trump. He now runs with a record and one that is not good.
I also think the cheating makes it inevitable is also a self defeating argument. There has been massive cheating for decades in American elections and yes most of it is rooted in Democratic cities, but Republicans have won. The 1920 landslide for Harding and Coolidge is an interesting repudiation of the Democratic party and an important reason we falsely learn that Harding was a horrible president.
Trump won in 2020.
The democrats will not allow another honest election.
Can I take a shot at guessing the something?
The uniparty won’t “let” him win, but it’s not up to them. It’s up to YOU.
JFK him...
The GOP establishment will throw 24 to keep Trump out of office and then expect the voters to trust this bunch of trash with money to do anything they promise, just vote for us and shut up.
Country is way way different from the time of Ronnie. Apple to oranges comparison, sorry, no dice.
Point is they said they both couldn’t win and they both won. It can and will happen again.
and I stand by my statement that the county is way different.
Trump is smart enough to be vigilantly on the lookout for such as you dare not say. I’m sure I am among many who pray for his safety and protection, as well as added strength, on a daily basis. What are you accomplishing with your sly speculations? Not a thing.
You mean the people today are more hip to the uniparty corruption, Big Media propaganda and Great Global Reset?
The communists will do whatever it takes to jail Trump before the election. That is what communists do. In case you haven’t figured it out yet the so called democrat party is the communist party.
Yes
I suspect Trump will not win again as the nation is half mentally ill and Spiritually corrupt, dead, hopeless...or both. Unless a Spiritual revival occurs the nation is hopelessly lost and heading for final destruction.
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