re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Matt Gaetz said tonight that he will run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t run. “I am certain I can whoop Joe Biden up one side of the country and down the other.”

Karl Rove stated along time ago that if you just maintain an alternate reality long enough, it will get picked up and treated as if it had validity.

And that worked marvelously for them up until recently.

Now all the bloviating and bravado is not holding up and propagating itself at the rate they are used to.

In fact, it is being exposed as totally ludicrous and unfounded.

Ludicrous and ridiculous, it may be. But it has complete hold over the GOP and is poisoning them throughout the nation — and harming the rest of us too. Back in 2016, before I joined this site, PLL was expressing his concern about Trump’s prospects, while others here mocked him for his gloomy prognosis. Where are we actually now? we are stuck with a system where (1) a minority of voters can select the President (e.g. technically the candidate who wins 60% of the vote can lose), (2) for President, the legislature can ignore voters , (3) a powerful RW media echo chamber promotes fanaticism and racism, brainwashing millions including highly educated professionals, and (4) the entire GOP is on board with litigating the results of the last election (or at least not stopping such litigation) and stripping minority citizens of the right to vote.

The Democratic Party is in a bind because it’s stuck with a 50-50 Senate and an opposition party that votes in unison against any Democratic proposals. It cannot afford to lose a single Democrat to get anything done. In 2008, I felt overwhelming joy at the election of Obama and the large majority he enjoyed in both the House and the Senate. But McConnell’s obstruction succeeded and within 2 years that majority had vanished. Biden learned lessons from that, but he doesn’t have that majority and unfortunately has to contend with the same McConnell, whose evil hasn’t abated over the years. So far, a majority of Republican voters are all in on ludicrous and ridiculous.