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Ready to Be the 2024 GOP Nominee
Most Americans would support keeping Donald Trump off the ballot in some states. Will it happen? Highly unlikely.
A new ABC/Ipsos poll finds that, by a narrow 49% to 46% margin, Americans say they support the Colorado and Maine decisions to boot Donald Trump out of the race under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.
Overall, 56% of people say they’re willing to see him disqualified.
Looking at Other Options in Late 2024
Besieged
Careful, You Might Make Him a Martyr!
Attribution for the above cartoon: Mike Peters @mikebpeters
Peter O’Toole as Henry II, King of England, in a Memorable Scene from Becket (1964)
At the heart of the dispute between Henry II and Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was the role of the monarch and the special rights and privileges enjoyed by the Catholic Church — an institution that was enormously powerful at the time.
A bit over two years after his death, Pope Alexander III made Thomas Becket a Saint, and in the eyes of ordinary people, Becket came to be seen as a martyr for the rights of the Church.
The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 changed the course of history.
Becket was one of the most powerful figures of his time, serving as royal Chancellor and later as Archbishop of Canterbury. Initially a close friend of King Henry II, the two men became engaged in a bitter dispute that culminated in Becket's shocking murder by knights with close ties to the king.
It is a story of betrayal, of the perceived abuse of power and those who fall for standing in the way of the Crown.
A Trump Toady, if Ever There Was One
You’re Demanding What?
Will Justice Prevail?
Unleashing the Crazies
Is This the Future in November 2024?
Is He Above the Law?
“Can You Believe This Garbage?”
Yes, We Can!
No Immunity
The Wrong Kind
False Equivalence
Iowa: An Exercise in Futility
Over the past year or so, it’s been an uphill battle for Ron DeSantis running against Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.
It was never going to be an easy task. For better or for worse, the Republican Party might well be called the Trump Party.
He is showing how hard it is to run for president in general, and against Donald Trump in particular
“God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker’—so God gave us Trump.” Thus intones the narrator of a video Donald Trump shared on his social-media platform, Truth Social, earlier this month. Amid the huffing and puffing, a mischievous, even puncturing note can also be heard: Mr Trump, as God’s chosen agent, will not only “fight the Marxists” but also pause to “eat supper”. After taming the “cantankerous” World Economic Forum, the gravelly voice deadpans, Mr Trump might “come home hungry” yet he will wait “until the First Lady is done with lunch with friends—then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon”.
Mr Trump was aggrandising himself, but he was also once again making fun of poor beleaguered Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, aka, to Mr Trump, “Ron DeSanctus”, aka “DeSaster”, aka “Tiny D”…
Compared with the politician of 2016, Mr Trump is himself a darker candidate. But he has delighted in playing the Road Runner to Mr DeSantis’s flummoxed Coyote, Bugs Bunny to his plodding Elmer Fudd.
The Prohibitive Favorite
A Joke of a GOP Field
A Foregone Conclusion
The Also-Rans
The 2024 Election and the GOP
Ouch!
A Comedy of Errors
Looks Fishy
I First Read it as “Wenches Will Fall...”
You Don’t Get What You Pay For
It Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Guy
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