Back in 2020 he was a supposed frontrunner struggling to look like one, fresh off a sluggish performance in the 2020 Iowa caucuses. He asked New Hampshire voters to help him flip the narrative and deliver him a comeback. He snarked back at critics, belittled a younger challenger and called one woman “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event.
Then he skipped his own campaign party, headed to South Carolina, and finished a distant fifth in New Hampshire’s primary, faring worse than the former mayor of a midsized Midwestern city.
Me:
Moderates who don’t think it’s a problem:
The issue is that it’s a private entity that can do whatever they want and if people don’t do what they say, then a Republican wins.
What is complicated about that?
Why defend something that is obviously undemocratic just because that’s currently the way it is?
Go start your own party, with blackjack and hookers. Then you can decide who should run in the general for your party, by whatever means you see fit.
And I mean this sincerely. We desperately need more parties.