4753 trump Again?

 One down, eleven to go and we’ll be exchanging happy new year greetings again.  Seems that while the days drag, the years just fly by. Since the end of the trump era and before the start of trump’s will-he-won’t he era, time runs at warp speed. 

Frankly, I can wait.  But it is worth looking at the picture now and maybe comparing it six or nine or 12 months down the road.

 

The former president sits around in Florida and probably, he’s fuming and plotting and planning.  “This'' has to happen, “that” can’t. Can trump actually do anything about the conditions on which he’ll insist take place before he decided whether to run again?  

 

If they DO happen, is he likely to jump into what probably will be a massive hodgepodge of candidates?  If they DON’T happen, what then?  We have to remember he’s going to be 76 years old in June.  Can a 76 year old come out of an enforced retirement, run for president, win the presidency and then not completely screw up?

 

The probable answer is yes.  Should he?  I think you can safely assume this corner is not the same as his corner, but in the world of politics, that doesn’t much matter. 

 

But you also can assume that he’d like to be president again and will come thisclose to running if he decides not to and won’t tell anyone about that until the last possible month.  Or week. Or minute.

 

He'll probably waffle for a while, then, if he scares off most if not all of the other candidates, will run again. Now is the time for you to be sure you know what you're going to do when he does that.

 

SHRAPNEL:

--Governor Newsom of California wants to turn San Quentin prison into a healing venue and will be moving death row inmates to other prisons.  Sure. Why not? Spread the happiness around.

 

--Biden welcomed Qatar as a major non-NATO ally for helping us get people out of Afghanistan.  Does that actually mean anything?   Or was it just a gesture to the visiting head of the Qatar government and designed to be forgotten tomorrow?

 

--Connecticut offered help to restaurants and other food vendors hit by the Corona virus.  They haven’t come up with the money.  And dozens of restaurants are saying if they don’t soon, they’ll close.

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