Kurt Schlichter plays devils advocate in new article: why Trump shouldn’t run

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The first problem for Trump is that the enemy hates him. It hates him with the burning heat of a million chafing thighs of Brian Stelter, who is a potato. There is a ceiling to Trump's support, and even some nominal Republicans will never vote for him just because he is Trump. Some people just find him and his quirks exhausting; maybe they will learn from their botched 2020 vote for a return to "normality," but maybe they won't.

It's the hatred we need to consider because it motivates otherwise demoralized Dems. Remember, our enemies will do whatever they have to do to stop him, legal or not, just as we saw last time. They will raise a billion dollars or more from the sexually-unsatisfied wine women of the suburbs and the evil billionaires of Silicon Valley. Their functionaries will indict him and his family for bogus "crimes" that are not crimes, but they do not care – not at all. The tech fascists will try to silence him to the extent they can. Every network but Fox, Newsmax, and OANN will hate on him 24/7. They will cheat where they can. They will lie shamelessly. And judging from the Dems' collective shrug over the attempt to murder Justice Kavanaugh and the manifesto of the pro-abort terrorists of Jane's Revenge, they may even use violence.

Remember, every norm, rule, and law has a Trump Exception™ that excuses whatever the enemy does to stop him.

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The hard truth is that Trump was the head of the Republican Party and the Republican Party was absolutely and utterly unprepared for the legal fights that preceded and followed the election. If you want to place blame, you have to place it on the guy in command.

It's the states where this gets fixed, and states like Georgia have done so. But this constant bitching and moaning about 2020 is about as effective as the J6 kangaroo committee as far as moving voters – in fact, it's annoying because, in a time of $7 gas and our 401(k) dropping lower than Robert Reich on his tip-toes, no one wants to hear it. But that's all Trump talks about.

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Trump had yuge achievements, but he also had some yuge failures. He did not build the wall or at least much of it. He did not purge the woke from the bureaucracy and the military. And his establishment-friendly COVID response, plus his stubborn embrace of a vaccine that did not perform as promised, are problems. Why he never fired that malignant elf Fauci is a mystery, but it is in keeping with his terrible track record re: personnel. For every excellent Robert O'Brien or Ric Grenell in the administration, there are a dozen Boltons, Milleys, and Omarosas who were a total disaster. Scaramucci, for heaven's sake? Jeff Sessions? Really? How much trouble did Trump invite by not canning that sanctimonious loser the second he recused himself because the WaPo told him to?

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I like Trump. I voted for him in 2016 and 2020, and I even wrote a book defending him from the lies of the left. But I don't work for him and I have never gotten as much as a Christmas card from him, so I'm free to tell hard truths. We need to assess Trump honestly and in full – he has a lot of factors in his favor for 2024, and he has a lot of factors against him for 2024. But this is not about Trump. This is about winning. If he does run, let's hope there's a tough primary to sharpen him up for the general. And in that primary, each of us is going to have to decide whether Trump is right for America again in 2024.

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