07-09-2020, 01:57 PM
(05-21-2020, 04:15 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Besides, I figure there are more Trumps that will be running in 2024. The way the establishment Republicans were rejected, a few like Palin and Trump have taken over what is left of the Republican Party. The Trump brand will likely take a lump, so another of that ilk may rise. I don't know. We will see.
One possibility that makes sense to me is Bolton. This book he wrote could be his "running-for-president" book that most candidates write. His "conservative" credentials are pretty darn solid, if indeed any real conservatives of the Dick Cheney type and/or Newt Gingrich types still obtain.
Clearly, he has intelligence and he can read. He is a student of history. His belief system strikes fear into me, but he could be just the sort of "Republican" who could do a lot. He knows the intricacies of the Bureaucracy forwards and backwards.
His one BIG difference is that he is NOT an isolationist. And I don't think he would rattle swords; I think he would deploy and use them.
If we use the Model as guidance, and assume that all cards are on the table during this Crisis, and that it could go either way, and if it happened to swing to the right, Bolton could be The Man.
[font=Arial Black]... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.[/font]