6 thoughts on “What I’m Looking for in a 2024 Candidate

  1. Another interesting article, and I’m always glad to see representation from the right on OT.

    I couldn’t vote for Trump or Biden last time. If a vote can in any way be seen as an endorsement, I could never vote for either of them. I think Trump would have been the far superior president these four years, although he would potentially have blown out the budget even even worse. My hunch is that he would have left willingly in early 2025.

    I wouldn’t hold criticism of the DoJ against a candidate. Trump may be the most criminal president of my lifetime, but it’s close, and he’s probably not the most criminal high-level elected or executive branch figure. I’ve I’ve never seen a person targeted like Trump has been. I don’t like it when people make Trump out to be an innocent victim, because I trust neither their motives nor their potential actions in fixing the problem. But yeah, I see Trump as a guilty victim.Report

    1. I couldn’t vote for Trump or Biden last time. If a vote can in any way be seen as an endorsement, I could never vote for either of them.

      This is one of the odder cycles I’ve seen. There’s so much of it that seems really weird or inexplicable to me, especially on the GOP side.

      If I had to guess, I still don’t think Trump is going to win the nomination. But if he does, I’m probably voting for Biden in the general.Report

  2. David – you and most conservatives like you still don’t seem to get what we are all fighting against. It’s admirable that you still believe the GOP can somehow be saved but you are dealing with politicians and voters who no longer hold democracy as a central tenant of their order:

    A story in the New York Times today by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage, and Maggie Haberman outlined how former president Donald Trump and his allies are planning to create a dictatorship if voters return him to power in 2024. The article talks about how Trump and his loyalists plan to “centralize more power in the Oval Office” by “increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House.”

    They plan to take control over independent government agencies and get rid of the nonpartisan civil service, purging all but Trump loyalists from the U.S. intelligence agencies, the State Department, and the Defense Department. They plan to start “impounding funds,” that is, ignoring programs Congress has funded if those programs aren’t in line with Trump’s policies.

    https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-17-2023Report

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