The NeverTrumpers never learn
The 2020 attempts to ‘primary’ Donald Trump will be even more pathetic than 2016
Daniel McCarthy
January 27, 2019
10:22 AM
One of the lessons of the Trump era has been that Trump’s establishment critics are incapable of learning anything or reforming their ways. The same political and policy analyses they unsuccessfully applied in 2016 — which told them there was no chance Trump would get the GOP nomination, let alone become president — now lead them them to think Trump will get ‘primaried‘ in 2020. Could they be right for once?
Not really, but it’s worth remembering that four of the last five Republican presidents have faced primary challenges during the re-election campaigns. Getting primaried is in fact the norm for Republican presidents over the last half-century, with only George W. Bush, flush from the initial phases of the Iraq War, not having any experienced challenger in 2004. Reagan’s challenger 20 years before that was certainly experienced — a former governor of Minnesota — but by 1984 was a truly trivial figure: Harold Stassen is the man whose face appears in the political dictionary beside the term ‘perennial candidate.’
https://spectator.us/primary-trump-party-years/
