Life of Wry

After what feels like years leading up to the 2024 presidential race (because it HAS been years… the presidential race began pretty much the day after Biden took office in 2021 and it’s all the media’s been talking about for the last three years), the Iowa caucus is in five days where the first votes will finally be cast (though they aren’t really votes per se, since it’s a caucus, but it’ll give everyone a sense of how the candidates rank). And we’ll have to endure a truly agonizing year of presidential campaign politics as the primaries winnow down the republican field (we know the outcome already) and the poor democrats have to wince their way through a very painful race. I just can’t. But we must.

Nobody wants it. Nobody’s ready for the torture.

Tonight was the final debate before Iowa on Monday. It was a stupid little slugfest between Haley and DeSantis, the only two non-Trump candidates left (Christie pulled out late this afternoon, having not even qualified for the debate and seeing the writing on the wall). Trump, doesn’t lower himself to debates. Iowans seem to love him no matter, especially the hardcore evangelicals who think he was sent by God. Gov Chris Sununu said tonight that, while he supports Haley now, he’ll support whoever the Republican nominee is, even Trump, even if he’s a convicted felon, even if that felony is about trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election in order to stay in power after having lost by seven million votes. And Sununu’s one of the more sensible Republicans. That’s our country now.

It’s supposed to be something like -20 degrees on Monday… wonder who’ll even come out to caucus??

Anyway… here they are, the last two standing, but only for about another month. Haley hopes to be selected at Trump’s VP.

Of course I don’t know what’s going to really happen. Conventional wisdom — and polls — suggests that Trump will be the eventual nominee (hard to fathom those silly republicans think an obvious psychopath who literally instigated an insurrection against our government, abuses women, cheats in business, lies through his teeth, dabbles in treason and sprays on a golden tan is the best choice, but whatevs), but ya never know. And maybe he does select Haley, but who knows. Either way, I’m still of the mind that Trump is easier to beat than either of these two. But I worry.. I mean: Biden. He’s not the Biden of 2020 and that Biden was sketchy enough.

Like I say: 2024’s got dread written all over it.