What is your worst nightmare? Donald Trump running for president again in 2024? That’s your worst nightmare? Close, but not quite.
Try this scenario. How would you feel if Donald Trump ran as a Democrat and won the nomination in 2024? Aaaagh! That would be your worst nightmare.
Okay, if you have stopped foaming at the mouth, if you pulse has settled back to near normal, read on. Two questions need to be considered.
First, would Donald Trump decide to run as a Democrat?
Of course he would. He was a Democrat long before he was a Republican. Furthermore, Trump still holds a grudge against those Republicans who chose not to support him as the primaries ran their course (20%, according to some statistics). And woe unto those who did not buy into his “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Running as a Democrat would be sweet revenge. As we used to say in the Marine Corps, “Payback is a motherfucker!”
Second, could he actually win the nomination and run for president as a Democrat?
Before you assert that such a thing could never happen, stop and think back to June of 2015. It was then that Donald Trump announced he would seek the Republican nomination in 2016.
Hearing the news, many scoffed at the idea, giving him little chance. He was viewed as an inarticulate buffoon, an amusing distraction, at best. As the nomination process got under way, Senator Marco Rubio, or Governors Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, were touted as front runners. Surely common sense would prevail. Wouldn’t it?
We now know that common sense took a holiday in 2016. Donald Trump’s unconventional antics caught the Republican establishment totally off guard. So, to you who say, “No way,”
I say, “Be careful, be very careful.”
All of this leads to one other question. How would the left leaning media deal with Trump running as a Democrat? That would be entertaining, to say the least.