Mitt Romney admits Trump would slam-dunk 2024 Republican nomination

This says it all about the state of politics in the United States and, in particular, the state of the Republican party. Mitt Romney, former presidential nominee, grandee/maverick of the Republican party, says that if Trump were to stand as candidate for the 2024 presidential election he would win the nomination by a country mile, as we say in Blighty. Romney is a realist. He's almost definitely right because, as he says, Trump's voice is the loudest and strongest in the party and the way things are going it will remain so for the next four years. It's quite the most extraordinary situation. Here is a man who has lost an election and caused the Senate to lose its Republican majority and has been impeached twice, and yet he is still seen as the flag-bearer for this defeated party. No wonder Trump must be feeling pretty bullish down on the golf course in Florida. I feel sorry for the Republicans with dreams of being nominated for 2024, such as Marco Rubio, Florida senator and still only 49, and of course Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and ex-ambassador to the United Nations, also just 49. According to Romney who I presume will not be standing again in 2024, they have no chance if Trump has another go at the White House job. It's bleak for them and bleak for the Republican party and bleak for the United States of America, my second favourite country in the world. As I have blogged before, the resolution lies in the hands of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. If they do really well in the next four years and there is no new war and no new pandemic and the economy flourishes and the world stays relatively quiet and stable and climate-change is dealt with properly (wow that's a lot of ifs), then even if Trump comes back he will lose against the Democrats. If things go badly and the Biden/Harris leadership fails America, then Trump Part Two just might happen. I think/hope Biden and Harris will be all right.