The point of a primary run against President Trump can’t be to actually win. I know that 2016 should make all of us leery of saying that some political development “will never happen” — but c’mon.
So is the point instead to set an alternative course for the future of the Republican party should Trump prove a failure in 2020 or in his second term? That doesn’t make sense, either, unless you believe that the GOP has a future as a party that favors abortion and gun control and is unconcerned about religious liberty and judicial conservatism.
Is it to give Republicans who have serious objections to Trump a chance to register their disapproval? If Weld is the alternative on offer on primary ballots, they would do better to look into whether they can write someone else in.