Certainly popcorn.

My working theory? The DS is cornered, and that corner is shrinking day by day. Happy to hear that Dave is still touting the theory - I haven't listened to him for ages, so I cannot say if he has brought anything new to the premise aside from simple speculation.

Because the DS is cornered, they will be forced to choose actions that are doomed to fail, but I think that putting in Big Mike is such a massive break from the norm that its not something they can access, desperate or not.

It took them a few decades to raise and position Barry. The others they can or are putting in play are people who also have been positioned for many years (newscum, bill haley, etc) in the political system.

I don't know of any precedent in US history where throwing in someone like Big Mike at this point in the political timeline has ever been done, let alone been successful. (But then, I'm not too big on US presidential campaign history!)

DJT threw his hat in the ring as early as June 2015. Even so, it seems to me, in hindsight, that his candidacy was many years in the making, right? Going back for decades, he'd been asked about running for President. And, one wonders if the Apprentice was just about a reality TV program, or actually part of a plan to establish DJT's national position in the public consciousness.

Mah, meh. We're just speculating based on whatever information seems to make sense. Meanwhile, pass the butter....