Nothing about Trump’s campaign makes sense
Zachary Faria
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The reality of the GOP primary race is that former President Donald Trump remains the polling front-runner despite the fact that he has offered no plausible path to victory. In fact, he seems intent on handicapping his campaign at every possible turn.
Nominating Trump would remove the biggest red flag voters see with President Joe Biden’s candidacy: Biden’s age. Trump is just four years younger than Biden, meaning that voters who don’t want a man born in the 1940s to lead the country would not then be flocking to the GOP nominee. Trump actively wants to take Biden’s age off the table, telling Fox News’s Sean Hannity to lay off the issue.
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Trump also seems content to parrot Democratic talking points rather than GOP proposals. On Thursday, he disparaged the use of the term “woke” to describe left-wing culture war issues in comments indistinguishable from that of a Democrat. This despite the fact that it is one of the most prominent issues cited by GOP primary voters, who are rightly concerned about woke culture warriors taking over schools, universities, and corporations.
He then turned around later that night and decried wokeism in the military, because he is nothing if not wildly inconsistent.
The rest of Trump’s campaign is as coherent as you would think. He wants to make a campaign issue of how Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) name is pronounced. He said he would only need six months to fix the “deep state,” despite the fact that he already had four years to do exactly that. He has claimed that former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who turned nursing homes into COVID hot spots and then attempted to cover up the deaths he caused, handled the pandemic better than Florida.
What, exactly, is supposed to be the point of Trump’s campaign? He and his team don’t want to push back on Democrats on cultural issues. He thinks New York is better run than Florida, the state that should be the GOP model for governance and for turning a swing state into a solidly red state. His team is promoting “fake news” CNN as legitimate and trustworthy in order to attack Republicans.
Do Republicans really want a nominee that is going to pal around with establishment media and praise Democrats while letting them run roughshod on culture war issues?
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That is exactly what Trump is offering. It is always possible that his polling lead collapses when the race actually gets going (it is only June 2023), but if it holds, Republicans are saying that they do, in fact, want a candidate who will fall in line with Democrats and the media and help Republicans lose, and who won’t talk about Joe Biden’s age or how Democrats are imposing liberal ideas on children in schools and on normal people through the power of corporations.
All of this to nominate a guy who already lost to Joe Biden. None of Trump’s campaign, or his reason for running, make any sense. If Republicans choose to stay in his corner, they can keep their complaints about losing elections to themselves because it will once again be another self-inflicted injury.