Hillary Versus Trump in 2024?

 Lord God, no! 

Yet one Democratic analyst seems to not only think it's possible, he's almost rooting for it.  Writing in a syndicated column, Douglas Schoen has suggested that President Biden has been so thoroughly damaged by inflation, the pandemic, and continued political division, that he shoudln't even think of running again.  Schoen figures that it's inevitable that Republicans will renominate Donald Trump.  With President Biden bogged down by a foreign policy no one understands and a domestic policy that's even more incomprehensible, as well as being saddled with a Vice President even more unpopular than he is, Schoen writes, it only makes sense for the Democrats to nominate Hillary in 2024.  She not only has experience and is no only battle-tested from having gone against Trump once before, Schoen argues, she can rally female and minority voters and a time when reproductive and voting rights are under assault - and, Schoen argues, there's simply no one else even remotely popular or well-known enough to run in 2024 should Biden, at 82, decline to run again.  Besides, compared to Biden and to Bernie Sanders, who will be 83 in 2024, Hillary will be a youthful 77.

Forget COVID tests.  Schoen needs a drug test.

I refuse to vote for Hillary in 2024 for the same reason I refused to vote for her in 2016.  She's an opportunist and a duplicitous centrist who would not bring fresh ideas or a new start for the country - two things that are even more necessary in 2024, as this nation approaches its 250th anniversary.  Also, progressives hate her like poison.   And even if she does rally Democratic constituency voters, no one knows how she could deal with a scenario in which the 2024 election is rigged in favor of the Republicans because of the various voting restrictions passed in key states. And besides, why would anyone want to relive 2016?  Hillary versus Trump again?  It would be like seeing The Cannonball Run again.  Actually, it would be worse, because at least The Cannonball Run had Roger Moore's wonderfully self-parodying performance as a guy who thought he was Roger Moore.  Alas, Hillary knows she's Hillary, and Trump knows he's Trump.    

Here's another argument against Hillary in 2024: Newt Gingrich originally suggested it.

If the Democratic Party, now severely as divided as the country at large, is in such bad shape that it needs to dig up the Clintons again, the party deserves to die - which it likely will after January 2025, when a reinstated Trump declares martial law and outlaws opposition parties (and shuts down CNN).   There are so many Democratic presidential possibilities that are not being taken seriously enough - Amy Klobuchar, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg - who could take the fight to the GOP in 2024 as the Democratic presidential nominee if only given half the chance.

But if the Democrats would rather try someone  from the past, say, someone from 2016 other than the ancient Bernie Sanders . . . how about this guy?

You were expecting maybe Lincoln Chaffee? 😛

Oh, Martin O'Malley turns 59 today.  He'll turn 62 two days before the next presidential inauguration. In Democratic circles, he's almost a kid.  Happy birthday, Mr. O'Malley.