I’ll Scratch Your Candidate If You Scratch Mine

With the Republican Party poised to barely win the House, we will now witness some of the greatest political theater in the past half-century.The Democratic and Republican parties have the same problem and are on track to solve each other’s problems during the next eighteen months. Both parties have a nominal leader who is not loved by a large portion of his party. In the case of the Democrats, a large majority have signaled that they do not want Joe Biden running again for president. And while Donald Trump still wins most internal polls for who should be the 2024 Republican candidate, the spectacular failure of many of the candidates that he supported and promoted leaves many in the party looking to Florida for new leadership the party.

So you have the case of two parties with leaders who are not liked by large portions of their fellow party members. So what c …