Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
There is a specific Trumpian agenda, with which he is alone associated, that is becoming the issues agenda of the conservative movement and the party base, if not the party elites.
“I don’t know if he’ll run in 2024 or not. But if he does, I’m pretty sure he will win the nomination.”
So says Mitt Romney, the sole Republican senator to have voted twice to convict President Donald J. Trump of impeachable acts.
But is it possible Trump could win the nomination in 2024?
What does history teach us about Republican presidents who, after losing the White House, come back to win it again?
Well, to be frank, there is no such history.
Consider. Four Republican presidents in the 20th century were defeated while seeking a second term. None was nominated again.
William Howard Taft lost the White House to Woodrow Wilson in 1912, and even ran behind the third-party “Bull Moose” candidate, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. Taft never ran again but went on to serve as chief justice of the United States.
Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt was considering running again in 1920 but died at 60 in January of 1919 at Sagamore Hill.
After President Herbert Hoover lost to FDR in 1932, he never ran again.
Gerald Ford, serving out Nixon’s second term, lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976 and packed it in for good, as did President Carter after losing to Ronald Regan in 1980.
George H. W. Bush lost the White House in 1992 and retired from electoral politics, never to run again.
As for Trump running in 2024 and winning the GOP nomination, he does hold high cards no other ex-president held, except perhaps Roosevelt.
Trump has a vast and loyal following. Currently three-fourths of all Republicans see him as their leader. He won 74 million votes, the highest total ever for a sitting president or a losing presidential candidate.
Their loyalty is traceable to what Trump achieved, whom and how he fought, and the new issues he introduced and has become indelibly associated. Foremost among these is his struggle to secure the Southern border against endless illegal migrant crossings.
Unrestricted immigration from the South, the Third Worldization of America, is the true existential threat “climate change” purports to be.
Trump also succeeded in enacting the traditional GOP platform of low taxes and deregulation, producing record-low unemployment — before the pandemic hit in March 2020.
His record of elevating strict constructionists, constitutionalists and conservatives to the federal courts, and three Supreme Court seats, is unrivaled in the history of the modern Republican Party.
Trump also forged a bond with Middle America by taking on a media whose treatment of him was remorselessly hateful and hostile. “We love him for the enemies he has made,” it was said of Grover Cleveland.
He brought a new and unique agenda to the GOP.
He replaced a free trade globalist ideology with nationalism. He set out to rebuild America’s depleted manufacturing base and restore her economic independence. Under Trump, the slogan “America First” came to represent a new foreign policy where rich and prosperous allies carried more of the burden of their own and the common defense.
He wanted Americans to do their nation-building here in the USA.
While Beltway Russophobes prevented Trump from achieving the rapprochement he wanted, and he failed to extricate us from the forever wars of the Middle East, he did drawdown U.S. forces in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and keep us out of an all-out war with Iran.
There is thus a specific Trumpian agenda, with which he is alone associated, that is becoming the issues agenda of the conservative movement and the party base, if not the party elites.
Yet, the drawbacks to a Trump nomination remain major.
He did, after all, lose in 2020. And he has been damaged by the months-long battle since to prove that Biden was the beneficiary of a stolen election. The Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by MAGA militants was blamed on Trump and became the article of his second impeachment where every Democratic senator and six Republicans voted to convict him. And even some of those who voted to acquit, like Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, declared him guilty of inciting the mob. Moreover, Trump faces a blizzard of legal challenges and charges that will damage his reputation, his businesses and him, personally.
In 2024, Trump will turn 78, the age Joe Biden is today. And between now and 2024, there is sure to be considerable attrition in support among the 74 million who voted for Trump.
But if Romney is right and Trump has the kind of strength that could make him the nominee in 2024, that strength will surely be sufficient to veto or sink any potential nominee who does not have the former president’s blessing.
And, from seeing both candidates of 2020 up close in recent weeks and months, does not Trump appear more likely to be the Republican leader of his party than does slow-moving “Sleepy Joe” look like the Democratic nominee 44 months from now?
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Nope. No way. No thanks. Done with Trump. He failed. Surrounded himself with wall street bankers and left us out to dry in the commie sun. Done with him. No wall. No healthcare. No illegals deported. No arrests. Nothing. Just 4 years of tweets and broken promises. He didn’t cross the Rubicon. He didn’t cross the street. Nope I’m done with him. Amazing thing is that people still consider voting at all. Brain dead morons. No offense if you are one just saying.
Hard truths for many people.
Why do they want to ensure Trump is never able to run again?
“Those that vote decide nothing; those that count the votes decide everything”
Until the voting system itself gets cleaned up everything else is just noise.
He didn’t lose. He built some wall. (460 miles). He stopped the wave of invasion. The frickn jobs were awesome. (I finally got one). The deep state got their lips ripped off and exposed their green slimy teeth for all to see. “America First” is finally viable, after 30 years of being demonized. Trump has never once apologized. Ever. Never grovelled or begged for forgiveness. He throws a rubber ball every day for the dogs to chase after, barking and howling. Nothing’s perfect, If I ran for president, every damn one of them on both sides would try to kill me. BUT, I’d stay within the Constitution. First thing I’d do is land a Marine expeditionary force on the lawn at Langley, and take control of the facility to get all the records and computers, and shut the place down for 90 days of “re-education”. Trumps’ biggest problem was that he thought there were still some rules to the game, and some honorable people who would play within the lines. Now we know better.
“The deep state got their lips ripped off and exposed their green slimy teeth for all to see.”
Trumps greatest achievement.
“So says Mitt Romney, ”
How can anyone tell what Mittens says? He’s always wearing a mask. He probably said, “MMF, Mmph”.
It doesn’t or won’t matter if Trump comes back for a 2024 run. Our VOTES don’t matter. We are not part of any equation other than what will be done to us to control us. The 2020 Election confirmed or should have confirmed for all of us that this Democratic Republic has become a complete and utter sham. Corporatism, Socialism, Eugenics, etc. etc. are the rules of the day. I wish this wasn’t the case but the body of evidence is very clear and to ignore it places you in peril. I can honestly say I don’t know where this leaves us. There will never be a Republican/Conservative President again in our lifetimes regardless of Trump. 20 million new illegal aliens given the vote by 2022, UBI to the Free $hit Army, perpetual war, inflation/deflation/stagflation (really inflation in all the things that matter to us… energy, food, shelter) are going to be the guiding controls of our future. Kummie Harris will be the next president because she is a woman and she is of color. Equity will demand her installment regardless of any opposing voice or view.
This nation has made it clear that its citizens don’t matter…. being a citizen carries no real voice, so accept it or, at least, understand it. Any future plan or action needs to be under the light of seeing things as clearly as possible. Local governance is where our focus needs to be… for it may be the last vestige of freedom that may be able to be maintained before the invisible gulag of the digital world closes its jaws on us all (COVID passports, National IDs, Digital currency… collars of control).
I wonder how I ever had any respect for Pat. We got pissed on but were told it was Brawndo
“His record of elevating strict constructionists, constitutionalists and conservatives to the federal courts, and three Supreme Court seats”
What bullshit
Yep. All three of his big time conservatard appointees stuck a green weenie up his ass when Roberts denied standing to Texas. That fucking Kavanaugh is the worst of the three. He helped Ken Starr get Clinton a pass and led the push to get Vince Foster’s murder ruled a suicide. Why would anyone even think that he was a wise choice for the Supremes?
https://www.fbicover-up.com/brett-kavanaugh.html
http://www.fbicover-up.com/miguel-rodriguez.html