Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 316 of the Plodcast. Thanks for joining us. Good to have you. So what I want to talk

about a little bit here is the election season that we are heading into.

As I'm recording this, the Iowa primary has been held

and the New Hampshire primary has been held and everything is galloping towards South Carolina, which is Nicky Haley's home state,

and it is a place where she is likely to get shellacked by Trump.

Now, everybody seems to be wondering why is Nicky Haley still in the race?

What is she doing? She got trounced in Iowa and

where she was supposedly strong, New Hampshire,

she got trounce there and she was only strong because independence and

Democrats could cross over in the primary to vote for her.

And you say, well, why don't we, why isn't she just throw in the towel?

Well, there are all kinds of reasons why she might not throw in the towel.

One of them is that never trumpers, there's a never trumper contingent that is simply

deranged that is going to go down with the ship and you know that they're just

they're true believers they're true believers.

They're gonna get, they're gonna fight to the last ditch.

There's that.

There's another element where there is a whole universe

of what you might call political grifters who make their living off of campaign

money and there is no campaign money where there is no campaign.

If the campaign is, gets buttoned up, then, okay, then all the consultants, all the ad people, everybody gets laid off.

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