There's no way he could win, an unqualified buffoon who veers between hate speech and gobbledygook. The polls are irrelevant, because eventually Republican primary voters will do what they always do and choose a responsible, establishment pick — maybe a former prosecutor, or a veteran lawmaker. And if by some miracle he actually wins the nomination, November will be a field day for the Democrats, because the public will see right through him.
What they say now about Pennsylvania Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano is also what they said six years ago. "They always wanted Trump," Politico Magazine headlined a piece about Hillary Clinton's campaign strategy that was published on Nov. 7, 2016 — or roughly 24 hours before Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States. That Nov. 8 disaffected white voters across the Rust Belt and pockets of rural America — people the Democrats didn't seem to even know about — lined up to vote for a loudmouthed political novice. Trump "lost" the election when he labeled Mexican migrants as rapists, and when he mocked John McCain's war record, and when he bragged on the "Access Hollywood" tape about sexual assaults ... until he didn't.
The Democrats should have learned their lesson in 2016. In this millennium, it's impossible to underestimate the power of "tha crazy" coming out of a Republican Party base in which not only a majority of voters now believe 2020′s "big lie" that the last election was somehow stolen from Trump, but in which an alarming number are waiting for John F. Kennedy Jr. — last seen when he died in a 1999 plane crash — to expose a baby-eating cabal of Democratic pols and Hollywood stars and maybe arrest Anthony Fauci for treason.
