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How to Run against Trump: A Realist’s Notes

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Former president Donald Trump attends his first campaign rally after announcing his candidacy for president in the 2024 election in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023.

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Someone who used to be someone has taken to trolling National Review on Twitter, a web medium that perhaps coincidentally also used to be something.

The particular provocation this time is that we here are apparently craven shills for Trump, afraid to call his lawlessness and unacceptability what it is. While it is true that we have varying opinions around here — we do not force rigid conformity to an editorial line among our writers, as other outlets are reputed to do — I, for one, have no difficulty stating that Donald Trump should never be president again. Moreover, I am certain that he never will be president again, which is why I am particularly interested in seeing him denied the Republican nomination.

JB

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Jeffrey Blehar

Jeffrey Blehar is a National Review staff writer living in Chicago. He is also the co-host of National Review’s Political Beats podcast, which explores the great music of the modern era with guests from the political world happy to find something non-political to talk about.

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