John Bolton, former Drumpf National Security Advisor, announces (on Good Morning Britain, of all places) that he will run for president in 2024.
John Bolton is a very smart guy, and not remotely the alien monster the media bills him as. But this will go nowhere.
Bolton is a blunt instrument - a club wrapped in barbed wire. He's a power-player who will get down in the dirt, and an administrative machine who knows what kind of scheming, blackmail, and intimidation it takes to manage a bureaucracy successfully. On an administrative level, he'd be a great president. But he'll never get the chance because a guy like Bolton makes a lot of enemies and victims, but very few friends. He is the antithesis to Joe Biden - Bolton is always firing on all cylinders, he's disciplined, stays on message, and he's both more honest and a better liar than Joe. But Joe Biden is living proof (living, at least, from toes to shoulders) of what being a back-slapping deal-maker with no particular principles will get you.
So Bolton won't get anywhere near sitting at the big desk. But he's goddam well-qualified for it.
