A lot of these are good options but kind of irrelevant. Alito and Clarence seem to be reasonable options as (allegedly) so crooked that they have to screw their pants on every morning (h/t to Hunter Thompson, in regards to Dick Nixon). Little Stevie Miller is just a Trump suckfish who is irrelevant except that when he wants some headline…
A lot of these are good options but kind of irrelevant. Alito and Clarence seem to be reasonable options as (allegedly) so crooked that they have to screw their pants on every morning (h/t to Hunter Thompson, in regards to Dick Nixon). Little Stevie Miller is just a Trump suckfish who is irrelevant except that when he wants some headlines has his group make some kind of shitty move (the latest is suing the NFL for forcing teams to use the Rooney Rule; no plans to get into the importance of it at this point). Cheney is out of politics, more or less, and can be ignored with impunity especially given the Repubs treatment of Liz. George W. Bush is too lazy to want to control the world or at least project his worldview, which is...a good barbecue?. Mitch doesn't have the ability to affect world events except in a crude "No money for Ukraine!" sort-of way.
The thing is, what we need is someone who has a world view that is icky and wrong, but is convinced is so correct that it is The Only Way To See Things, and has other people believe him and follow his every utterance.
The true and only answer is: Thomas Friedman. He has undue influence, he writes books that are dumb as shit but are considered Tomes of Political Discourse, he gibbers on about Centrism uber Alles, and he has a constant perch on the NYTimes op-ed page. I think he's our boy.
A lot of these are good options but kind of irrelevant. Alito and Clarence seem to be reasonable options as (allegedly) so crooked that they have to screw their pants on every morning (h/t to Hunter Thompson, in regards to Dick Nixon). Little Stevie Miller is just a Trump suckfish who is irrelevant except that when he wants some headlines has his group make some kind of shitty move (the latest is suing the NFL for forcing teams to use the Rooney Rule; no plans to get into the importance of it at this point). Cheney is out of politics, more or less, and can be ignored with impunity especially given the Repubs treatment of Liz. George W. Bush is too lazy to want to control the world or at least project his worldview, which is...a good barbecue?. Mitch doesn't have the ability to affect world events except in a crude "No money for Ukraine!" sort-of way.
The thing is, what we need is someone who has a world view that is icky and wrong, but is convinced is so correct that it is The Only Way To See Things, and has other people believe him and follow his every utterance.
The true and only answer is: Thomas Friedman. He has undue influence, he writes books that are dumb as shit but are considered Tomes of Political Discourse, he gibbers on about Centrism uber Alles, and he has a constant perch on the NYTimes op-ed page. I think he's our boy.
Ooh, Frank Luntz might be another good one there. A person whose every move made every bad problem worse.