Yeah Ohio is about to go down the Kansas GOP governance timeline. They will elect some absolute lunatic who will ram through massive across the board tax cuts, staff all agencies with party hacks then somehow try to blame democrats for the resulting carnage.
It’s not a left-right scale, it’s a fealty index. MAGA demands complete and total fealty to the king, Kemp has failed by not attempting to overthrow democracy in Georgia.
(Well, he’s already overthrown democracy in Georgia in the past. He’s just refusing to do it under a national spotlight for Trump.)
Now that I realize how badly he was owned by the GOP, now thinking Romney and Co. were probably correct that Obama allowed himself to get owned in foreign policy as well.
brian kemp has dreams of running for the nomination (as does pompeo and desantis and tucker). since ‘24 is now an opening, he’s suddenly a potential enemy.
Kemp is an example of the Peter Principle: good enough at fixing elections as SoS to get promoted to Governor, but sucking (within the GOP) at his new task of installing Trump.