I haven't written much about Trump lately, in no small part because all things Trump are moving very quickly, and in part because there’s a lot more than Trump to cover in a liberty-focused blog. I had drafted a post before the primaries started that suggested greater likelihood of winning the White House with a GOP candidate not named Trump, titled "Betting On The Nag," but that got stale before I found an opportune time to hit the "publish" button. Several other iterations have come and gone.
Even today, my fingers are not clacking the keyboard about Trump himself, but about Trump stuff, as in the swirl and whirl of events around him. In other words, today isn’t about The Donald, but rather the landscape.
After just a couple primary contests, where the “base” vs the “anyone but” dichotomy resolved decisively for the former, it became clear that Trump was the near-certain GOP nominee for the White House. Today, with his last competitor having dropped out of the race, it’s a done deal. And that's even if he gets convicted in one or more of the four criminal cases currently running against him.
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