For Those Less Enthused. . .

(For Those Less Enthused. . .)

The news of Trump's success in Iowa was not universally well received. Trump has had his detractors, the legions of so-called "never Trump" still exist. As mentioned yesterday, the Davos Conference is again underway but its recent acolyte, Climate Tsar of the Biden Administration, John Kerry, resigned his post in order to assist Joe Biden's re-election efforts. However, there are those beyond Davos or Kerry that are dreading a new Trump Administration.


The media, perhaps with the exception of Fox News, never had love for Trump. Indeed, many in newsrooms or on air have seen themselves as activists with the mission to compromise the former, and possibly future President. The "talent" at CNN or MSNBC go on television and complain that someone as dis-reputable as Donald Trump is still so popular and is having considerable electoral success.


What happened to "even the jungle wants him dead ? That Trump was not likely to prevail now because so many that voted for Biden in 2020 were not seen as coming back to Trump in 2024. That Donald Trump would be the preferred opponent to President Biden because he had been successful in 2020. One who perhaps agreed that Trump was a done quality is Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell.


The Trump/McConnell relationship can be complex. McConnell has never been a Trump supporter. He found the GOP upstart a nuisance. He was never a fan of "America First." Indeed, McConnell as the highest ranking Republican in Congress, would accept a permanent Senate Republican Minority if it meant not having Trump back in the White House.


In his closing remarks in Iowa, Donald Trump tried to sound magnanimous. He congratulated his competitors. With the margin as large as it was, there was no need to gloat. However, it was that measured tone that also suitably suggested that it was time to move on. Both DeSantis and Haley are moving on to New Hampshire but depending on the outcome there and if a flavor of Iowa is replicated, then the whole logic for the DeSantis and Haley campaigns, that only they could defeat President Biden, disappears.


Nothing succeeds like success. And not even Nostradamus could have predicted this turn of events.

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