The Totally Hilarious Impending End of the Career of the Odious Bob Good
As you know, there are primary elections in a few states tonight. Virginia is one of them. And theres one race I wanted to highlight because its a sign of the times, of the Trump era. Bob Good is currently the chair of the Freedom Caucus. If youre assuming that because hes in the Freedom Caucus hes awful, well
good call. Because hes completely awful. It also looks like his political career is going to end tonight. And couldnt happen to a nicer guy. Because Bob Good is awful. The reason his career is coming to an end, though, goes back to his very bad decision to endorse Ron DeSantis. In other words, he crossed Trump, although in a pretty meager way. Once Trump was back in the drivers seat he made very clear that while he was supporting DeSantis hed obediently return to the Trump Train as soon as DeSantis officially bowed out.
The other factor in Goods downfall is that a guy named John McGuire, a Trump superfan, announced that he was going to primary Good. As far as I can tell, at least the beginning this was McGuires idea. I dont think Trump or someone acting on Trumps behalf recruited him. But perhaps Im wrong on that. In any case, he started going to Trump events, doing things to curry favor with Trump. Had his picture taken with Trump at a few events. You get the idea.
From this point, two factors had come together to end Goods career. He crossed Trump. Trump gets mad when you cross him and hes vindictive. (Except of course when hes not. Or when it would take some work to get even.) Then, McGuire cued the thing up for Trump. He showed that he was ready to primary Good. He was developing his Trump super-fan brand and he was getting at least a little traction among the far right in his district running against Good as not totally, positively loyal to Lord Trump. Importantly, Trump said a few nice things about him without endorsing him. That helped McGuire get even more traction.
Point being: Trump probably wanted to crush a few people to make a point about the DeSantis rebellion. But hes also lazy. So he didnt want to put much time into it. But McGuire cued it up. All he had to do was give the public, ceremonial thumbs-down to Good and endorse McGuire. Which he did.
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comradebillyboy
(10,461 posts)jimfields33
(18,837 posts)I know that seems impossible, but give it until March and everyone will see. Hes going to be a Marjorie Taylor Greene type. And thats no good for anyone.
RussBLib
(9,666 posts)...and do they have a chance?
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