2. Walsh is not going to run, like Weld, on being a less horrible person than Trump. He's not, like Sanford, going to criticize Trump for deviating from conservative principles. He's out there to get MSM airtime as a Republican amplifying attacks on Trump's character & fitness.
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3. Historically, incumbents are likelier to lose if they face a non-trivial primary challenge, although it's not clear if that's a cause or a symptom, but I'm skeptical that Walsh, Weld, or (if he runs) Sanford would be non-trivial.
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4. Smaller primary challenges (in terms of votes) matter less. John Ashbrook, for example, ran a principled primary vs Nixon in 1972. National Review supported him. He got crushed, Nixon was re-elected in a landslide, & the GOP lived to regret it. https://ashbrook.org/about/john-ashbrook/nr-ashbrook-candidacy/ …
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5. Anyway, if you believe that Trump is a sufficiently large threat to the country - relative to giving power to the Democrats - that he needs to be defeated BAMN, then hiring a loud grifter like Walsh makes sense. He won't be restrained in what he argues. He may provoke Trump.
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6. You don't get in bed with Walsh if you care about your own reputation. You do it because you want a kamikaze mission.
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Well, considering he is quantifiably one of the worst presidents in the history of the US, that sounds like a proper tack.
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Making it harder for Trump to win is a good thing. The Republican Party rediscovering principles is a good thing too, but maybe that's a heavier lift.
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I think that is the point.
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You make it sound like there is a conservative case for reelecting Trump. Only problem is there isn't one. Trump is barely to the right of Bernie Sanders. Nor is there a moral case as Trump is devoid of all morals.
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