The woke Left has a much larger base of support, thanks to the Left’s control of the media, our straying educational system, and America’s intrusive administrative state.

In this situation the most irresponsible act that the beleaguered opposition could commit is renominating Donald Trump. Doing that would lead us into a trap set by the Left. Trump can count on the votes of no more than 36% of the electorate. Most respondents in recent national polls won’t even consider supporting him, and even the decrepit, corrupt Joe Biden causes less indigestion among voters than his likely Republican opponent. The multiple indictments to which Trump has been subject may have won sympathy from his base but has done nothing to make him more electable. Only a slim majority (53%), according to The Hill, would favor pardoning Trump even for the dubious crime of holding classified documents in his residence. This is not a politician with broad majority support. …

Do the Republicans really want to be bothered with this legal Albatross as they work to win back the presidency and gain congressional seats? Do they really want a national campaign that remains mired in the lost presidency of 2020 and in Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021?

[This is one reason I don’t find polling all that meaningful at the moment. Republican primary voters don’t have to answer these questions until January, and likely won’t even include them in their calculations before Thanksgiving. It’s easy to offer Trump support with pollsters as a way to protest his treatment, but these questions will loom large when the actual ballot choice is upon voters. — Ed]