For a long time now, the Republican party establishment has been hoping for the appearance of a candidate who would be able to wrest the party’s presidential nomination from the grasp of serial sex abuser Donald Trump (SSAT) and rescue the party from the clutches of a narcissist who cares nothing for the party or even policies but simply seeks to be president so that he can soothe the pain of being seen as a loser and wreak vengeance on all his perceived enemies, a list that is long and growing longer by the day. But who will bell the cat? Who will be the person who takes down SSAT by attacking him for his multitude of faults as a candidate and a person?
The most vigorous attempt to do so is by former New Jersey governor Chris Christie who seems to have decided that he is the one to bring down SSAT. But Christie himself is a highly flawed vessel. He has long and close ties with SSAT, worked on his transition team in 2016, and even tried to get a cabinet position as attorney general and is still probably smarting from the humiliation of that rejection. His chances are slim.
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