I am not a Republican. I am not a Democrat. I am a Libertarian. In fact, I am a radical Rothbardian Libertarian.
Given that, I now propose a radical suggestion for winning the 2024 Presidential race. For the Republicans.
Donald Trump cannot do for the GOP what he did in 2016. He is 'old news'. If he runs for President, although he has an elevated chance of winning, he has no chance of doing good things for the Republican Party as a whole. But there is a slate that would radically transform the political landscape forever, and in a positive way.
If Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida can be cajoled into abandoning Florida for national office, he could not possibly choose a better running mate than Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).
"OMG!" someone just gasped, "what kind of moron would suggest a Democratic Vice-President for a Republican President?"
That person does not know that in the early days of this nation, the candidate with the most electoral votes was declared 'President', and the runner-up was declared 'Vice-President', and their party was not considered. It is a fairly recent modification that a 'slate' of President+Vice-President ran conjoined, and electors were pledged not to a candidate, but to a pair of candidates.
I have seen Ron DeSantis at work, and I approve his methods. There is no one else within the GOP whose evident philosophy I approve more than the erstwhile Democratic Congresswoman from Hawai'i. Were a DeSantis-Gabbard team sent to Washington, there could not rise against them any plausible opposition. The GOP certainly would not. The Democrats' only ploy would be to eject Gabbard from their party, cutting off their collectivist noses to spite their collectivist faces.
Pass the popcorn.
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Update (10-11-2022): Aw, crap! Tulsi Gabbard today announced that she is leaving the Democratic Party because of their abandonment of all the principles (!) that she thought they were committed to. So, there goes DeSantis' chance to make history. If he gets the GOP nomination in 2024, it would still be a good idea to tag Tulsi as VP.
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Why would a radical Rothbard libertarian support two authoritarian warmongers for president?
ReplyDeleteBeats me. Because he's as ignorant of recent history as he is of he first decade of the 18th century?
DeleteSeems as good an explanation as any.
Gabbard plainly isn't and I don't think DeSantis is, either. Further, while I wish for anarchy, I recognize that I'm unlikely to persuade enough people to my way of thinking to get it in the planning future.
ReplyDeleteGabbard was Republicans' favorite Democratic hawk until she saw an opportunity to expand her fundraising base from the Hindutva Indian nationalists who funded her congressional campaigns to naive non-interventionists. But even then, she made it clear she was just fine with killing as many Muslims as possible as long as it was done with drones so as not to endanger US troops.
DeleteAs for DeSantis, he's an Israel-first interventionist on foreign policy and an anti-freedom-of-association, anti-immigration-freedom copsucker domestically.
In exactly how many elections did the runner-up become Vice-President? I'm pretty sure it was 3, but it might have been 4.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly wasn't a "fairly recent modification" that put an end to that.
"In exactly how many elections did the runner-up become Vice-President?"
ReplyDeleteFour -- John Adams twice, Thomas Jefferson once, and Aaron Burr once.