Had the GOP’s legislative and political giants not overpromised and had they made more efforts to enact the things they promised, they wouldn’t be in this situation. (Had Marco Rubio not been foolish enough to endorse an immigration plan backed by Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, he might be the front-runner now). Had GOP voters been tougher on those leaders sooner, things might not have come to this pass.
So the GOP is desperately looking for a general to save them. But what worries me is that, as the country faces increasing problems, this may go from a perfectly legitimate (if desperate) electoral gambit to something else. When, as polls consistently show, the public has vastly more confidence in the military than in civilian government, perhaps the search for generals as saviors may go farther.
That sort of thing seldom ends well. But, as with parties, nations turn to generals for salvation when their existing leadership looks incompetent and corrupt, which is pretty much how ours looks now. It’s time for our political leaders to raise their game, before things take a worse turn.
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