I wrote a while back that, given the selection, I’d vote for a stinking turd for president somewhat than Donald Trump.
How proper I used to be: A stinking turd, for instance, wouldn’t have pardoned the January 6 rioters. A stinking turd wouldn’t have imposed common tariffs. A stinking turd wouldn’t have threatened to take over Canada and Greenland. A stinking turd wouldn’t have posted a video of itself, sporting a crown, piloting an plane, and dropping … .
Nicely, okay. I agree with the turd on three out of 4 points, and on the fourth, it’s a push. Go together with the turd.
In case you’re disturbed by my place, word that I don’t truly favor placing stinking turds within the White Home. I’m anti-Trump, however I’m probably not pro-turd.
So please take this subsequent assertion within the spirit through which it’s meant: The Democrats’ subsequent presidential nominee needs to be a straight white male.
I’m not homophobic, femalephobic, or minorityphobic.
I’m simply anti-MAGA. And one of the best ways for Democrats to defeat MAGA is to appoint a straight white male. Nominating anybody else may cost the Democrats a number of proportion factors of the vote, and that may price the Democrats the presidency. That will be a catastrophe, so straight white male it’s.
I’m considering solely about swing voters in swing states. If Pennsylvania includes Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with West Virginia in between, I’m serious about these West Virginians. Would possibly a number of % of these West Virginians, consciously or not, forged a poll in favor of a straight white Republican man as a substitute of a Democratic candidate who was totally different? I believe so, and I’d hedge in opposition to that.
Cory Booker, Wes Moore, Pete Buttigieg, Abigail Spanberger, or Gretchen Whitmer would all be effective candidates for president. However not now. Not when it issues a lot.
I’d take Gavin Newsom off the desk, too. Newsom is very polished and awfully slick. However California is considered by too many People because the land of fruits and nuts. And California has too many distinguished points — comparable to homelessness and the excessive price of dwelling — that may very well be deployed in opposition to Newsom. Sorry, Gavin. Do what the Republicans so usually prefer to counsel: Return the place you got here from.
I’d take Josh Shapiro off the desk, too. Since he’s the governor of Pennsylvania, he’d absolutely carry Pennsylvania in a presidential race, however I concern that his faith may cost a number of votes in different swing states, comparable to Michigan or Georgia. I wouldn’t threat it. (For what it’s price, I share Shapiro’s faith, and I wouldn’t nominate myself, both. I’m not an antisemite; I’m a realist.)
If I had the selection, I’d choose my candidate both from one of many swing states, to hold that state within the presidential election, or from another state through which a Democratic politician has proven the flexibility to enchantment to independents in a conservative space.
At this level, I’m unsure who I’d select because the Democratic nominee in 2028. However I’d choose from amongst straight white males to extend the possibility of profitable in an election dominated by, to make use of Hillary Clinton’s phrase, deplorables.
I notice that I’ll draw criticism from the progressive left for what I’ve written right here: “Herrmann, you fool! A straight white male gained’t energize the bottom! How do you suppose Mamdani gained in New York? The secret’s to encourage folks on the left to vote.”
I encourage to vary. The forces of anti-MAGA don’t want to energise the left. Irrespective of who the Democrats nominate, anti-MAGA will win in California and New York. We don’t want greater margins in these states.
Democrats should carry the center in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada. To my eye, that requires a barely left-of-center candidate who gained’t offend anybody: Straight, white, male it’s.
And, on additional reflection, possibly we must always rule out a stinking turd, too.
Mark Herrmann spent 17 years as a accomplice at a number one worldwide regulation agency and later oversaw litigation, compliance and employment issues at a big worldwide firm. He’s the writer of The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law and Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy (affiliate hyperlinks). You possibly can attain him by e mail at [email protected].
