That’s what the Project 2025 folks are seeking to do – tee up a database of potential grunts who have been vetted for their loyalty to the Dear Leader rather than the Constitution.
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Feels to me like he was trapped and made every effort to hem and haw and maybe-just-a-little-sedition-as-a-treat until enough smart people in his periphery all but slapped him upside the head and said, “You absolute dullard, you are not being a traitor today” and he said “aw geez Mom, I guess if I have to..”
At the very end when he was fairly well advised he could go to jail otherwise, he made the call to do his job.
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the next trump cabinet will be a star wars bar of rogues. the first cabinet wasn’t my cup of tea but i could see they were qualified enough (broadly; individuals will fall short I am sure) and not exactly proud boys in suits
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He literally had to be convinced by his son and Dan Quayle to do the most basic aspect of his job on January, 6th.
He nearly did exactly what the seditious mob wanted.
He is a spineless coward. There is nothing redeeming about him.
I agree that choosing between Trump and Pence is a worthless conversation as they both are complete trash in different ways.
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And we’re not even talking about the time he let an AIDS epidemic run wild because he thinks that gay people are sinners who deserve to die!
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Hey now. Just like Pence eventually certified the election when there was legitimate threat of jail time and being shunned by much of his family/friends if he didn’t, Pence eventually offered a needle exchange program that in his words “ended the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus in that community.”
Just like the election certification, he did everything he could to make the situation worse first, and at the same time that he allowed a needle exchange program he cracked down on carrying a syringe with intent to use drugs by making it a felony with prison sentences. But after knowingly letting HIV spread, and while increasing punishments on users, after the CDC and other experts gave him multiple recommendations over at least 2 years, he did implement a temporary 30-day program that arguably met his bare minimum of responsibility!
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What would you folks do if you had this?
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Paywall…
But JD Vance was not too happy about that.
https://thehill.com/media/4349581-jd-vance-washington-post-op-ed-rebellion/
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Sorry, I forgot to do the gift link. Should work now.
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Current polling is certainly frightening, but I’m not convinced a Trump second term is inevitable. Its one thing to answer a poll that you would vote for Trump, it’s another to pull the lever for him. We’ve seen so much noise in the polls since Trump showed up in 2015.
I don’t think think that Trump can carry his current trajectory out for 11 more months without alienating suburban Republicans. He’s now openly using Nazi rhetoric. Sure, he gets the reactions he craves at his rallies, but all this will do is encourage him to continue, and for Trump, that means he needs to make each rally more controversial, more extreme. If the election was held today, i believe he would win, because your average American is not paying attention to any of that. Trump is living in an echo chamber of only his most extreme support, and the team he has around him will only reinforce that. The voices of moderation that helped him win in 16 are gone. The ones that were hanging on in 20 still hoping to keep him contained are gone. Ivanka might be the only person on the planet to keep him between the guard rails. She is out.
I don’t think Biden has run a single ad yet, as he builds up a massive war chest for 24. He will have the best minds on this. Trump is handing him an infinite amount of material to use in 24 as campaigns. Many are watching right now scared that the Biden team are not doing much of anything… but one of the keys to winning an election is to peak at the right time and carry momentum into November. Now is not the time to begin that push.
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Biden has ads, at least on YouTube asking for donations. It’s not intense advertising season but they’re saving up.
I am worried about a possible Trump presidency but put no stock into polls saying Trump +5 or Haley +10 when we are a year out. Let’s see how that translates to actual momentum once a nominee has emerged from the muck.
There’s going to be massive divide in the GOP between MAGA and traditional Republicans. Can they bridge the gap and make those sit-out 2020 voters re-join the Trump Train? Maybe. It will be an uphill battle.
Will all the MAGA people say “well I guess after attacking Trump for months Haley isn’t so bad”? I don’t think so.
Traditionally you couldn’t put much faith in general election polls before Labor Day.
However, tradition doesn’t contemplate a media game such as Trump’s, or the existence of cults of personality.
We still have the wild cards of Trump trials, Biden’s health, and whatever news 2024 throws at us, to potentially sway voters.
I suspect, however, that the proportion of the population willing to vote for/against Trump is fairly fixed, and the election will come down to the effectiveness of the two campaigns’ get out the vote (and voter suppression) efforts in the swing states.
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No, probably not. The question is what will ordinary Democratic voters do? Will they cross over and vote for Haley in the primary?
They absolutely should, IMO. Due to turnout I assume that Biden has a better chance going head to head against Haley (who will get low GOP turnout as disaffected Trump voters will stay home) than he does against Trump (who will get really high turnout from his supporters who are angry about 2020, and tepid support from moderate Republican voters willing to hold their noses and vote for him) And then there’s the fact that if Biden should happen to lose at least we’d have a fairly sane person in the White House. (A low bar, to be sure, but she clears it.)
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I expect this to not survive a SCOTUS challenge…at least not until (if/when) there’s a conviction on the January 6th charges.
Wow, so that could keep him off the primary ballot, which would be interesting.
I really can’t wait to see on what technical grounds SCOTUS vacates the ruling without opining on its substance.
Suitcases of cash IMO
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How about “State courts do not enforce that clause of the 14th amendment?”
Then they don’t have to rule on whether Trump’s actions amounted to “insurrection”.
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I’m 100% waiting for
"We do not dispute that states may sometimes remove candidates from the ballot due to the Insurrection clause, but given that the issue is currently being litigated in lower courts, we overturn the lower court’s ruling that he be removed prior to a conviction. The bar for removal should be high, the legal process should be allowed to proceed as it currently is, and Trump may be removed following a conviction.
But like in 2000, don’t use this ruling as precedent, future situations may be different."