Given Youngkin's performance during 2021's campaign for governor of Virginia (primary and general), who said he was a “respectable” Republican? Less calamitous at best.
He's been bitten by the presidential ambition bug, and there's only two ways to gain that nomination these days: be a bigger asshole than Trump, or seem a more efficient Prophet of MAGA than Trump. Prudence suggests going down both paths since they're hardly mutually exclusive.
Given Youngkin's performance during 2021's campaign for governor of Virginia (primary and general), who said he was a “respectable” Republican? Less calamitous at best.
He's been bitten by the presidential ambition bug, and there's only two ways to gain that nomination these days: be a bigger asshole than Trump, or seem a more efficient Prophet of MAGA than Trump. Prudence suggests going down both paths since they're hardly mutually exclusive.