I looked at the primary finalists, and it’s sad, folks. I’m very politicized but aside from DeSantis, I don’t know who these people are. Were they put on the stage for diversity reasons? Because they don’t have national name recognition for absolute sure. Most normies have no idea who DeSantis is, let alone the rest of them.
Where are people with executive experience? Governors, mayors? Yes, again, DeSantis, great. But where are the alternatives? DeSantis can’t win. Where is the alternative that can?
That Nikki Hayley person. God. If you want to run a woman, that’s fine but the woman can’t simultaneously be a diversity candidate. Democrats played this game with Kamala Harris, and look what it is costing them. And they are Democrats. Their voters love diversity for its own sake. And even then it’s been impossible to sell Kamala to anybody.
The Tim Scott fellow. I’ve been following US politics maniacally for 20 years, and I have zero name recognition for him. The Ramaswamy guy, what is this, some sort of a joke? Yes, it’s possible to run a no-name candidate with a weird name and have him win. Obama, obviously, is an example. But to do it successfully, your candidate needs to be a powerful symbolic figure for a large constituency plus have a strong charismatic personality. It’s very hard to overcome zero recognizability in politics. It’s possible but hard. You need to have a personality that pops off a screen. You need somebody who can become a brand.
The fact that the field is enormously worse on the Democrat side is not an excuse. Democrats hold the press and the entertainment industry. They can afford to run duds. We can’t. We have nobody electable, and we are not even trying.
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