'Well, ask yourself first: which American president was the first to stand up for Ukraine, after Putin’s invasion of 2014? Was it the great liberal ­internationalist Barack Obama? No sir-ree. He… (View Post)

Does any alternative Democrat poll better against Trump or Haley or DeSantis than Biden? Not that I can see, indeed most poll worse (View Post)

Trump 49% Newsom 45%. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_newsom-8331.html A coastal California governor is also hardly likely to hold the rustbelt sw… (View Post)

Yes and that generation had seen their many of their contemporaries killed in the trenches or at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain or D Day or Monte Cassino and that gives a different outlook (View Post)

Yes but very good candidates are far more likely to apply when the party is either in government midterm or heading for government. Then high flyers are more willing to take a pay cut by standing for… (View Post)