The only person who can stop Donald Trump’s run for the presidency right now is Trump.
It is, for the moment, the most famous photograph in the world. The stare, the scowl, the pursed lips with their downturn of sourness, the tanning tints muted along with the hair showing more white than orange. Tens of millions across America see the mugshot released on Friday, Sydney time, as a reckoning of justice and the rule of law.
Ron DeSantis broke no ground. He will not be separated from his talking points. His charisma gene – he won re-election in Florida as governor last year by 20 points – is in remission. DeSantis was to be “Trump without the baggage”, but he is trapped in the culture wars of woke ideology, school curricula and book bans, anti-gay and anti-trans fear, and is unable to transcend those battlefields and be an appealing alternative to Trump.
Tim Scott, the black Senator from South Carolina, failed to ignite. A very appealing man, with a compelling narrative, who is, in a field of angry candidates, decent and hopeful, was sidelined. He may yet be the perfect vice-presidential running mate.Chris Christie, cast as the would-be Trump assassin from New Jersey , hit his mark, but it was barely a flesh wound.
But let’s get real. No one emerged from the debate as the clear alternative to Trump. None of them stood up to say: “Donald, you are the defendant-in-chief. All the best for your months in court. But this means you cannot also be the Commander-in-Chief. The American people need a full-time president.”
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