Whoever wins the primary will run the party. Whoever wins the primary will either be a Trump, a full-fledged lunatic like MTG, or someone convincingly playing one on TV.
The only way to keep the keys away from the MTG’s and Gaetz’s and DeSantis’s is to have a sane person win the base over by more convincingly playing a fringe lunatic on TV.
If the primary is rigged, it’ll almost certainly be rigged while Trump is at the helm, so whoever he rigs it for will either be one of his kids or whoever sucks up the most to him, which will surely involve being VERY convincingly Trumpy.
I agree short term. But if it’s Trump in 2024, I think the possibilities in 2028 and beyond are wide open as far as him running again, handing it off to Don Jr, or handing it off to whoever sucks up the best.
And it will be a total shitshow full of “have you stopped beating your wife” type questions that just leads the average moron to think zomg those investigations of Trump went nowhere but these are juicy as hell, those Democrats must really be up to something!
I think the point is that in these particular cicumstamces the republican filibuster would be in violation of the senate rules.
The hope is that mancinema will see this and change their mind’s and do a carveout ?
Not that they will of course.
Some slappy on NPR this morning was pitching the idea of brining back the talking filibuster requirement. I can see the Dems doing that, calling it a great victory, and still fail to pass anything as Republicans power through with old-school filibusters.
The good thing about minority rule is that only rich white people who can afford to get past the paywalls of the news media will know what is happening, everyone else can carry on blissfully ignorant.