I don’t think we can definitively say “not picking Shapiro for VP was a mistake” because there’s decent contemporary reporting that he actually turned her down for the position. He may have seen the writing on the wall.
When Trump first became a thing my line was that he was the male Rosie O'Donnell, with apologies to Rosie
Eight years later I'm happy he won again. The instant the media started calling him all the names they have always called conservatives and libertarians, he was my guy. See the conservative icon and Never Trumper Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism" for a self-aware study in how the dynamics of the best defence being a good offence lead conservatives to adopt the term fascist as a description of liberals. In large part the same dynamic made Trump
Somehow, the D's were so principled about illegal immigration that they leaned into his best issue in spectacular fashion. While I'm not happy that they made me like him, I am happy their judgment was so poor as to let him win again
I don’t think we can definitively say “not picking Shapiro for VP was a mistake” because there’s decent contemporary reporting that he actually turned her down for the position. He may have seen the writing on the wall.
When Trump first became a thing my line was that he was the male Rosie O'Donnell, with apologies to Rosie
Eight years later I'm happy he won again. The instant the media started calling him all the names they have always called conservatives and libertarians, he was my guy. See the conservative icon and Never Trumper Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism" for a self-aware study in how the dynamics of the best defence being a good offence lead conservatives to adopt the term fascist as a description of liberals. In large part the same dynamic made Trump
Somehow, the D's were so principled about illegal immigration that they leaned into his best issue in spectacular fashion. While I'm not happy that they made me like him, I am happy their judgment was so poor as to let him win again