2024? There may not even be a Republican Party by then.

| 6:00 pm EST January 2, 2021
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One of the more surreal developments this week: how obsessed the media has become with identifying supposed 2024 Republican candidates for president, and insisting that several of them have effectively “kicked off their 2024 campaign” with this or that stunt.

Meanwhile back in the real world, the Republican Party is in total freefall, ripping itself apart over whether to give meaningless verbal support to Trump on his way down. The GOP isn’t stable enough for anyone in it to be making plans as far out as next month, let alone four years from now.

In reality, every Republican politician who’s had to pick a side in the past few years – for or against Trump – likely has no shot at the presidency in 2024. If they’ve ever taken an anti Trump position, they’ll have a difficult time winning the primary. If they’ve ever taken a pro Trump position, they’ll have no chance in the general. At this rate the 2024 Republican nominee is most likely to be someone who wasn’t even around during the Trump era. Every Republican who’d had any dealings with him, of any kind, is tainted in one way or another.