Voters have been told that Donald Trump is the all-but-inevitable Republican nominee and that Florida Gov. Or that DeSantis, playing Captain Ahab, would pay Trump the sincerest form of flattery by imitating his persona as an unhappy warrior? Republicans might soon recoil from another: between Trump and DeSantis. And Reagan skipped the Des Moines Register’s Jan. 5 debate, which 58 percent of Iowa voters watched. One is the election of Trump, whose frivolousness about national security complements his weakling’s admiration for a bully.

Source: Washington Post July 14, 2023 13:20 UTC