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The political scene is evolving so quickly that I presume to offer some advice to President Trump: He can now win in 2024 by being the potential candidate of calm and moderation. The Democrats have become a Babel of contending extremists, suddenly and implausibly blaming the Republicans for defunding police forces and miraculously discovering the virtues of voter identification, after having denounced it for six months as the resurrection of Jim Crow. The utter moral bankruptcy of many elected Democrats was captured in the Texas state legislators fleeing the state in private planes, excitedly taking selfies of themselves unmasked and...

A lily-white ticket like Clinton-Kaine just won't cut it this time. And James Clyburn will demand an African American on the ticket. So the white women are out. Kamala Harris is possible but unlikely. She fizzled in the primaries and prosecuted African Americans for drug crimes. Stacy Abrams is a tubby joke (Nancy Pelosi says it's ok to call people fat) Muriel Bowser is all the rage (pun intended) and is right now a Black Lives Matter hero. Biden/Bowser Delaware and DC The second smallest state in the union and a 67 square-mile city that wants to be a state....

Who wants to bet that Mitch McConnell contacted Jeff Sessions to get him to run. To prevent a conservative from winning the seat, that is, prevent a non-good-old-boy conservative, for Sessions is certainly VERY conservative. But McConnell likes people who go along. So he's intervening, as he always does, to prevent a MAGA type conservative from getting into HIS senate, just as he prevented Tea Partiers from getting elected, then co-opting those that did. Whichever Republican gets the nomination in Alabama will win the election in November. So McConnell will do what he has to go get one of HIS...

And around and around we'll go!