The “Bland Scott Walker” Problem

This is how we get another dance with Trump.

That screenshot is from this article, which is a good rundown of issues related to the future of Trump. You begin with his general implosion, including:

• Oz and Herschel were huge losses
• Kanye and Nick Fuentes stuff
• Tried to basically step on the Constitution’s neck
• Tax fraud
• More legal cases
• Increasingly seen as unhinged
• Virtually everyone who worked for/with him has written a book about him
• His long-time CFO flipped on him

The wheels are off the bus. But, they’re also not. Because the only answers you ever see currently on the right are:

• DeSantis
• Youngkin

I guess there’s a small crop saying “Cruz” or “Hawley” but not really.

If you take a gander at this New Yorker profile of DeSantis, you get this near the end:

DeSantis has remade the political landscape in Florida. It seems conceivable that he could attempt something similar on a national level—though some political observers wonder whether he could endure the countless hours of banal conversation required to succeed…