The best bootlicker in the Trump orbit is …
by digby
President Donald Trump’s campaign manager predicted Saturday that the president and his family will become “a dynasty that will last for decades,” transforming the Republican Party while hewing to conservative values.
[He was s]peaking to a convention of Republican Party delegates in Indian Wells, California….
“The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party,” he said. “One that will adapt to changing cultures. One must continue to adapt while keeping the conservative values that we believe in.”
Parscale later declined to elaborate on his prediction of a coming Trump “dynasty,” or whether the president’s children could become candidates for public office.
He told reporters after the speech, “I just think they are a dynasty. I think they are all amazing people with … amazing capabilities.”
This isn’t just idle fluffing the golden goose although it surely helps. (His entire future depends on the Trump family.) Other Republicans believe the same thing. Never Trumper Rick Wilson thinks it’s plausible:
There are three 2024 scenarios that Republicans pretend they won’t face, but that represent the further decline and fall of a once-great party of conservative ideas.
First, the clues have been there all along that the real 2024 primary will be between Donald J. Trump, Jr. and everyone else. It’s becoming more obvious by the day; the Trump princeling has been on the road doing fundraising and political events for Republican candidates, he’s a favorite of the friendly friends at Fox & Friends, and his new book, Triggered, is coming out soon. He is fluent in the language of whining, dickish grievance-mongering, which has replaced modern conservatism.
This erudite tome is considered one of the most consequential and powerful books on conservatism since… oh, who am I kidding? Expect the usual pastiche of large-print, sub-Fox-level agitprop screeching in a slim volume that will be sold in bulk and appear on tables at garage sales within the year, spines intact. Whether the GOP wannabe 2024 field knows it or not, it’s DJTJ’s opening shot for the 2024 nomination.
For GOP candidates who think they’re going to finesse this one somehow, or blow up Trump Jr. in 2024, may I remind you of the hell of 2016? This time, the cult you fear so much will listen to its leader and support the dynasty. Trump’s royal fantasies won’t wait, and no matter how much any other GOP candidate has polished Donald Trump’s knob in the past years, he’ll throw them under the bus for his spawn.
The second 2024 headwind comes in the scenario of a Democrat actually winning in 2020. The 2024 Trump Party candidate will not only face an incumbent Democratic president, but one who was specifically elected on a referendum against Donald Trump and his philosophy and record. Caught between the pincers of winning the Republican primary and competing in the general election against the Democratic nominee, every single one of these candidates will spend the year before the election posturing and posing as the sole heir to Donald Trump’s legacy.
Making the pivot to the general election won’t just be difficult; it will be laughable. Imagine trying to make the jump from “I would let Donald Trump dry hump my wife in broad daylight if he would tweet something nice about me” to the era of “Trump has passed and I will lead a Republican party as it seeks to bring all Americans together as one to face the great national challenges ahead of us.”
Listen, guys. If you’re that flexible try out for the Olympic men’s gymnastics team and leave politics to the rest of us.
If only.
He also brings up the idea that if Trump loses in 2020 he may very well run again in 2024.
He’ll only be 78, a veritable spring chicken. And you can bet he’ll do everything he can to keep the Trump cult together, including a full court press by the Republicans to pretend that the election was stolen by the Democrats with the help of the Chinese. They’re already preparing.
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