Overcoming Gerontocracy

It’s a bit early for the 2024 horse race, but we have already introduced it in prior posts, so here is the latest.

You will recall, doubtless with some chagrin, that I have suggested that the strongest Republican candidate for 2024 would be Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Obviously, some of you took personal offense at the notion of supplanting the Donald. And some have suggested that a DeSantis candidacy would be suicidal for our great republic.

Others have suggested that it will never happen. They have suggested that Republican voters would never abandon the Donald.

Well, what a difference a few weeks makes. The Daily Mail reports a new USA Today poll. As it happens, the public and especially Republican voters have changed their minds.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is fast emerging as a top 2024 presidential contender capable of beating both Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, an early election poll suggested on Tuesday. 

The new USA Today/Suffolk University survey shows that a majority of GOP voters want Trump to pass the torch to the 44-year-old Republican governor - despite having declared his own third White House campaign last month.

And while the ex-president trails Biden in a theoretical head-to-head rematch, DeSantis holds a narrow lead over the Democrat of about four points.

I am sure that you do not want merely to choose the candidate who is most likely to win and who looks like he will do a better job, but on all scores, sad to say, it looks like the American public has been cured of its appetite for perpetual drama and for gerontocracy.

Think about it.