Disembark From the Trump Train

I'm going to risk hacking off many of my friends and relatives here, but it must be said. Donald Trump needs to ride off into the sunset, and we need to see that he does.

Let's be bluntly honest with ourselves here: we were lucky, very lucky, extraordinarily lucky, to get what we got from him. He won in 2016 only because people hated Hillary more; almost any other Democrat would have beaten him that year. Such fateful lightning isn't going to strike twice.

Nearly all his candidates performed abysmally in this past Tuesday's elections. Democrats took advantage of that chance, openly funding a Trump backed candidate in the New Hampshire Republican primary to insure their sitting Senator, Maggie Hassan, would have a cakewalk reelection. Guess what? She did. And her seat was vulnerable. Yet Republicans not beholden to him, DeSantis and Rubio in Florida, Kemp in Georgia, and Abbott in Texas scored monstrous victories. What do they all have in common? Conservatism without the vitriol or childishness of 45.

It's time to walk away from Donald Trump. By the grace of God, because that's what must have been at work in 2016, American conservatism gained more ground than it had since Ronald Reagan. It's not going to happen again with the former Chief Executive trying to pull the strings.

I say let's get behind Governor DeSantis right now and work hard for great victories in 2024. Further, if former President Trump declares he's running again, thank him for what he did, then show him the door. He's not a winner anymore.