Don’t blame it on me. It wasn’t my idea, but the cards as they’re laid out are telling me that’s what’s likely to happen.
Consider the present situation
Public opinion polls are showing that 60% of Republicans do not want Donald Trump to run, 70% of just about everyone thinks Joe Biden is too old and somewhere near that percentage are unhappy having a choice between two ancient white men. Ron DeSantis has shown himself to be pretty much a buffoon, although we’ve shown that limitation to be agreeable from time to time.
That’s a lot of known unknowns and unknown unknowns, as Donald Rumsfeld would have said.
Given these circumstances, the political gods that run back-room American politics chose this particular time to unhorse champion cowboy Tucker Carlson over at the Fox News rodeo. No one knows how these circumstances came to coincide. It may have been bad planning. It may have been simply a Rupert Murdoch temper tantrum. It may be that the gods just threw up their hands in despair, said “