The & # 39; Never Trumpers & # 39; become very desperate

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Walsh, the newcomer (or near-entrant) in the race, was a single-flame Congressman, who repeatedly reiterated the well-held idea that President Barack Obama was not born in the USA. Sanford was fired from the governor's office in South Carolina after leaving the country for a week to join his Argentine girlfriend. Mr. Weld has not held elective office for more than two decades and deviated from presidential politics in the early 2000s.
In summary, this is a bar of "Star Wars" politicians.

Although it's hard to imagine even a more serious Republican elected – like Maryland Governor Larry Hogan or former Ohio governor John Kasich – beating Trump in a primary, at at least one of these politicians would signal to the GOP (and the country as a whole) that there was real and strong resistance to the kind of policy rigged by Trump.

Instead, only "Never Trumpers" remain, three pols running – or thinking of doing so – because they have nothing left to lose. All three are so irrelevant in national republican politics that they are ready to embark on delusional accusations against Trump.

If this trio is what the "Never Trumpers" can do better, then it is very difficult to take them seriously as a movement – or even an informal affiliation of like-minded influencers – within the Republican Party.

Point: Trump's beating at a primary school was never going to happen in 2020. But using a serious conservative alternative might have allowed some elements of the GOP to preserve the idea that the whole of the party had not capitulated to Trump. This hope is now gone.

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