A Counterpoint To Ray's Latest List
You can find Ray-SoCal's latest list here . As Ray explains:
I listed what the GOP should fight on.
My expectations are at best 2-3 will actually getting Gop support. Too many of the GOP leadership are happy with business as usual.
The joker in the deck is Trump.
Trump being ostracized by the elite has forced him to focus.
Overton Windows I expect Trump to move / shatter are:
- election fraud
- capital insurrection narrative - his question of who shot Ashli Babbitt is brilliant.
- our system of justice is politicized
Trump is actually fighting back, which is rare in the gop.
At a state level there is lots of good pushback against the left’s efforts. Florida is leading this.
Don Surber offers his own view: No More Mr. Nice Trump . He begins with what amounts to a rebuke to the likes of Codevilla:
President Donald John Trump seems determined to get re-elected for a second time in 2024. I am not going to tell him how to campaign, because I am confident in his political abilities. My concern is about governance. He must learn from the mistakes of the first term.
He was too nice.
He was too trusting.
He was too dependent up Republicans in Washington, who are too interested in enriching themselves than in serving the public. Republican Senators Richard Burr, James Imhofe, and Kelly Loeffler cashed in on the stock crash after the intelligence committee (which Burr headed) was told about covid 19 .
In Term II, Trump needs to clean house and fire every political appointee, because they are unreliable lifers.
Surber's solution is for Trump to recruit talent from state governments. There are obvious problems with that. How many state officials are only state, rather than federal, officials because they haven't had the right opportunity to climb the greasy pole and go to DC? We've seen plenty of corruption at the state level in the aftermath of Election 2020.
Still, Surber offers many other ideas, some entertaining, some serious.
He concludes as he starts:
Finally, in Term II, there must be paybacks. Red China must pay for covid 19.
So should Fauci and all his friends in Washington.
There also must be investigations of Hunter, Hillary, and Obama.
No more Mister Nice Trump.