Ann Coulter: Trump is done, you guys should stop obsessing over him

During the Biden administration, I’ve given myself the gift of “not paying attention to politics on an hourly/daily basis.” I have faith in Joe Biden, and I’m sure that Uncle Joe will figure his way out of many messes, most of which he inherited. As such, I have no idea if Ann Coulter is really relevant to political commentary in the year of our lord Beyonce 2022? Coulter’s heyday was the Clinton and Dubya Bush eras, and she’s been mostly coasting on being a horrible person ever since. Does Coulter still have a following? Is she still recognized as a leading and important right-wing voice? I doubt it, especially in the current Death Cult/MAGA era. Still, Coulter is trying to tell Republicans something important: your guy is unhinged and you need to give up the ghost.

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is predicting the end of Donald Trump’s hegemony in the GOP, saying the former president “is done.”

“Trump is done,” Coulter, a onetime Trump booster turned critic, wrote in an email to The New York Times. “You guys should stop obsessing over him.”

Coulter’s comments came in an article published in the Times on Sunday about the mounting tensions between Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) amid speculation of a potential showdown for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. While DeSantis has so far sought to tamp down rumors that he’s angling for a possible White House bid, his rise within the GOP and growing national profile have irked Trump, who sees the Florida governor as owing his political success to him.

Trump also appeared to take a swipe at DeSantis during a recent interview with the conservative One America News Network in which he slammed politicians who won’t say whether they received a COVID-19 booster shot as “gutless.” DeSantis has repeatedly dodged questions about his booster status.

Coulter pounced on Trump over those comments in a tweet last week calling the former president a “liar and con man.”

“EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis’s booster status, and I can now reveal it,” Coulter wrote. “He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up.”

[From The Hill]

Wow, I didn’t know that Trump attacked DeSantis about DeSantis’s refusal to confirm whether or not he’d been boostered? That’s wild. It’s very weird that Trump has been making so many pro-vaccine statements in recent months – some would argue that by hyping the vaccines and encouraging people to get vaccinated and boostered, Trump is probably trying to take credit for what the Biden administration has done. But hey, if people get vaxxed because their orange traitor god said so, that’s kind of a good thing (sort of).

Anyway, as for Coulter… she’s assessing this as a longtime GOP political operative – she understands how Republicans will vote, and she actually has a nose for how general elections usually play out. If she wasn’t so vile, I would hate-respect her ability to organically assess the political winds. She’s not making an argument of “Trump should be over because of this and this.” She’s saying that the GOP needs to move on from Trump and find the new monstrous superstar, which she clearly believes is DeSantis.

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