Robert Kagan wrote a piece in The Washington Post last week about what America would be IF Donald Trump was regain the Presidency….
He joins others writing about that several ti me each week…
Kagan now writes about who and how the ex-President could be stopped and by whom….
The problem has never been knowing what to do. It has been doing it. In the past, stopping Trump has required people taking risks and making sacrifices that they did not want to make, whether out of selfishness, fear or ambition. Today, the challenges are even greater, but there is little evidence that the people we need to rise to the occasion are any more likely to do so than they have been for the past eight years.
Here are several things people could do to save the country but almost certainly won’t do, because they selfishly refuse to put their own ambitions at risk to save our democracy.
The first step is to consolidate all the anti-Trump forces in the Republican Party behind a single candidate, right now. It is obvious that candidate should be Nikki Haley and not because she’s pro-Ukraine but because she is clearly the most capable politician among the remaining candidates and the performer with the best chance, however slim, of challenging Trump. All the money and the endorsements should shift to her as quickly as possible. Yes, Ron DeSantis is likely too selfish and ambitious to drop out of the race, but if everyone else does and the remaining money and support all flow to Haley, he will quickly become irrelevant.
It won’t be enough, however, to rally the forces behind Haley. Even if she were to get every vote that’s now spread among the other non-Trump candidates (and she won’t), it would not come close to being enough to challenge Trump. Until now, she has been gathering support at the expense of other non-Trump candidates. To make a serious run for the nomination, she will also have to cut into the more than 50 percent of the party that now seems solidly behind Trump…..
A sobering look on IF Nikki Haley will be viable in the long run of 2024 Republican Presidential primaries….
“I admit that she’s had a rise, and good for her, but it’s not amongst conservatives,” said Dallas businessman Roy Bailey, a major DeSantis fundraiser. “And conservatives win primaries in the Republican Party and not Romney moderates. She needed to be outed on that.”
Her donors “may be able to put some fuel in her tank, but they can’t win her votes,” Bailey added…