My crazy prediction for the 2024 Republican Presidential nominee

[Yavin4]

Nikki Haley.

I don't think that the midterms will be a definitive win as the Republicans are hoping for. They'll lose the GA and PA senate seats, and the PA loss will be the most interesting. Fetterman is not your typical Democrat and not your typical PA Senator either. PA senators tend to be very middle of the road including Republicans. Fetterman is proudly left of center.

Which shows that the Democratic party, as a whole, is moving more and more away from centrist, neo-liberalism. They're returning to their Social Democratic, FDR roots. One big reason for this is that the Republican party has gotten so insane that moderates will go along with the Democrats as they have no other place to go. You're either in the Trump cult or you're not. There's no middle ground.

Haley represents someone that moderates in both parties can vote for. A return to sanity by the Republican party. Yes, she's very right wing, but the corporate media, and the corporate world in general, is desperate to wring the party away from the Trumpists. They will paint her in the best light possible. She will be presented as a savior of the country from Trump's fascism.

[edhopper]

1. The Republican voters

have abandoned moderates. Unless there is a change over of registered Republicans, she doesn't stand for anything they do.

[Yavin4]

9. The voters don't matter.

The big money does, and the big money wants to pull the Democrats away from moving to the left of center. They cannot do that with the Trump cult.

[edhopper]

22. The "big money"

hasn't stopped the GOP slide into Trumpism. And the "big money" only cares about their tax cuts.

[Yavin4]

24. They care about other things besides tax cuts.

Things like the rising unionization movement and workers not returning to the office. Trump makes moderation impossible. Haley is the antidote to that.

[stevil]

2. She is revered for sure in RW circles.

Would not surprise me if neither Trump, Desantis nor Biden get the nominations (AKA Biden not running).

[Demsrule86]

13. Biden is running and is a great president.

[Aristus]

18. Not revered enough for the GOP to endorse a woman of color, no matter how right-wing she is.

Who knows? When faced with the prospect of supporting a woman of color for the Presidency, Republicans may see her right-wing grandstanding as just a request to join the club. A white, male club, where people of color are used but not taken seriously.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. But the MAGAts dominate Republican primaries.

I don’t see them voting for Haley.

[dameatball]

4. "Haley represents someone that moderates in both parties can vote for." Nice theory, but naw.

Moderate Repubs maybe.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Putin's money is on MTG

If DeSantis doesn't run (and he will), there's your candidate.

[enough]

8. I agree, not because of Putin, but because she's got a bit of that same

hypnotic thing Trump has. Think of how many times a day she appears on DU, even though we supposedly think she’s absurd. And completely unconcerned about reality.

[RainCaster]

6. They will end up with Sarah Palin

The MAGAs will not rest until someone they like is on the ticket.

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

7. Disagree

Haley will be torn to shreds in the primary. She's a lightweight, with a bookkeeping degree, job experience working in her Mom's dress shop, compromise Gov of SC, then a trump gig.

[Demsrule86]

10. Moderate Democrats can't vote for Haley. She is just as bat shit crazy as the rest ofthem.

You should delete that.

[Demsrule86]

12. Democrats do not nor should they vote for any Republican.

[brooklynite]

14. The Republican Party doesn't get to choose the candidate...

The registered Republican voters do, and there's no reason to imagine that their looking for "someone that moderates in both parties can vote for".

[WarGamer]

23. +1000 nt

[Mr.Bill]

15. I'll see your Nikky Haley

and raise you a Tucker Carlson. Yes, I think they will be that batshit crazy by then.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

16. At this point the GQP can nominate anyone they want...

for the next few election cycles. They ain't gonna win shit!

You heard it here first.

[former9thward]

17. FDR was anything but a social democrat.

He believed in capitalism and saved capitalism from itself.

[Yavin4]

19. Social democracy

Social democracy is a left-wing[1] political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism[2] that supports political and economic democracy.[3] As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy.

In the United States, the progressive movement, a similar social democratic movement predominantly influenced more by social liberalism than socialism, supported progressive liberals such as Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose New Freedom and New Deal programmes adopted many social democratic policies.[227] With the Great Depression, economic interventionism, and nationalizations became more common worldwide and the post-war consensus until the 1970s saw Keynesian social democratic and mixed economy policies put in place, leading to the post-World War II boom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

[BannonsLiver]

20. Nah. Too "ethnic" for that crowd.

She’s also a woman. Two big strikes in the GOP primary electorate.

[WarGamer]

21. It's not that crazy... except

She attacked Trump once, after J6...

Thus... she'll never get past single digit percentage of support.

Think Kristi Noem if you're looking for a sleeper.