I don’t mean to bring Doom. But I feel like I’m watching a slow-motion political disaster. There are so many ways in which the Republican Party can steer the nomination to someone with a better chance of winning than Trump.
The party could recreate a governing structure that steers the primaries in a more favorable direction. The party’s leaders and contenders could signal more sincerely that they have learned lessons from the beating Trump gave them in 2016, and will never get as disconnected from these populist and GOP base voters again.
Instead, a significant portion of the party seems ready to make Kari Lake’s mistake in reverse. She refused to reconcile with or invite in the McCain wing of the party and she lost. A primary in which Larry Hogan, Chris Sununu, Chris Christie, and Liz Cheney are making noise for any significant amount of time is one Trump will win or find easy to sabotage.