As a Jew myself, I wouldn’t trust any “Jewish leader” who has effusive praise for Trump.
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1211668308912726016
Ffs
Also
https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1211659607027986432
Also what’s up with politicians and Career officials who change jobs frequently, putting their job titles in their twitter handles? It is dumb.
Tom Cotton is the one to be most scared of.
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The one to be most scared of is the one we don’t know. The GOP’s political bench is not deep. Donald Trump essentially came out of nowhere. I’m way more worried about the businessmen than I am the politicians.
For about a generation now the way to get power as a hyper ambitious person has been in business NOT as a politician. I’m sincerely worried about someone with real marketing/sales chops and a deep bankroll deciding to make a run at the GOP nomination.
Peter thiel has always been the one to worry about, follow his picks and be vigilant 
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This one is borderline worthy of bestof status. Seriously I’m 0% scared of any of the well known establishment politicians… but I’m terrified of some 40 year old Peter Thiel has been growing in a vat somewhere in preparation for 2024.
If Donald Trump proved anything it’s that they can cast a super super wide net to find the next nominee. They are absolutely not in any way confined to the largely unpopular and trash GOP establishment candidates we all love to hate.
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Yeah not getting the reaction here at all - why would Trump losing in 2020 (and obviously going all in on disputing that he lost legitimately) lose him any followers? Why wouldn’t he run in 2024? Which deplorables are just going to suddenly switch to Tom Cotton or Mike Pence or for god’s sake Nimrata Haley?
This is Bidenesque “return to normalcy” nonsense. McCain and Romney were the anointed next GOP leaders and look how that turned out for them.
Historically, voters/parties almost never want to take a chance on someone who lost previously, but Trump is certainly ahistorical.
Who knows what his health will be like in 2024 or what legal jeopardy he’d be in if he was no longer above the law. It’s not a lock that he takes a second swing if he loses in 2020.
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Trump has almost no chance of still being a free man by 2024 even if he gets a Federal pardon. The man has committed plenty of crimes in NY and they are going to lock him up more or less 100% of the time even if they have to pass legislation to make sure of it.
He has two outs to remain free. One is a coffin and the other is to remain in the WH after 2020.
Oh you sweet sweet summer child… s/
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In before a federal pardon became all encompassing…
You realize that Trump has gone and pissed off the establishments of both parties right? I’m not saying he’s going to get got for the right reasons… I’m saying he’s broken a ton of unwritten rules for rich people and they’ll see him rot in a cell for the rest of his days the second he takes his foot off their throats.
The WASP’s are not nice people. They’re plenty polite, but they definitely aren’t nice. His biggest sin? Making it painfully obvious to everyone what their grift is.
OK, Preet.
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Trump is going to be dead or so far gone that he’s in an institution that can care for him by 2024, but he is never ever going to jail. ‘We need to heal.’
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Very interesting.
In my view, those guys got incredibly unlucky to face Obama. Against someone else though?
Do you think they’d have lost versus Hillary?
I don’t know, maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but I want to believe that the rise of Trump/Trumpism was a 1-time thing—an incredibly unlikely confluence of factors that nobody else will be able to successfully leverage.
Sure 40% of the country is currently in a state of bizarre mass hypnosis where they have become enthralled to his antics, but anybody else who tries to act like Trump will just get laughed at and recognized as completely ridiculous. It’s all just bullshit and bluster and grievance and racism and everybody sort of knows that but this level of bullshit with no underlying substance can’t work for Tom Cotton or Kris Kobach or Don Jr.
Even if people are stupid garbage to the degree that some of you WAAFers insist, demographics are working against them. 2020 will be a critical inflection point, but I have to have hope that we will all be more hopeful a year from now. I know, I’m probably just naive but I have to be able to get out of bed in the morning.
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Yang’s (disappointing imo) response to a question about a Trump pardon:
My focus is on solving the problems that got Donald Trump elected and moving the country forward. And if you look around the world, unfortunately, it’s developing countries that have fallen into a pattern of the new president or the new leader prosecuting and sometimes imprisoning the former leader. That’s not a precedent that’s been set here in the U.S., and to me, that’s something that I would be interested in maintaining…It’s not in the country’s interest necessarily to look backwards. We need to look forwards.