Donald Trump is highly likely to get the Republican nomination in 2024.  Even if he is removed from the Colorado ballot and a few other states do the same thing, he will still be the nominee.  As long as Trump is alive and healthy, he is going to be the nominee.

2024 is going to be a complicated year, to put it mildly.  The power elite are trying to do everything they can get away with to stop Trump from taking the presidency.

There are many angles to criticize Trump from a libertarian perspective.  But no matter what you think of him, he has all of the right enemies.  The power elite who despise him the most are the most evil and dangerous people in our country.  They hate Trump because they see him as a threat to the status quo, i.e., their protected status as the establishment.

One of Trump’s major decisions in 2024 will be who he picks as his running mate.  It is safe to say that he will not be going with Mike Pence this time around.

Even though the vice president doesn’t seem to do much, this is an incredibly important pick for Trump.  If Biden or some other establishment Democrat is the nominee for the Democratic Party, it won’t make much of a difference who is picked as the running mate.  It will be an establishment figure who parrots the establishment narrative.  Kamala Harris is interchangeable with a lot of other people.

There are two major reasons this matters for Trump.

A Life Insurance Policy

The powers-that-be will literally do anything to stop Trump.  They make up stories about Russia collusion.  They will indeed try to rig the election to the degree it is possible.  They will smear Trump in every way.  They are trying to throw him in jail to keep him away from the presidency.  After all that, there is only one option left.

It isn’t 1963 anymore.  We have the internet.  So, it isn’t as easy to get away with assassination.  But we can’t discount the CIA and other so-called intelligence agencies trying.  They are evil enough to do it, but they will likely only try in a last-ditch attempt if nothing else works.  Even at that, there are video cameras (smartphones) in almost everyone’s pocket, and there is a free flow of information that didn’t exist 50 years ago.

The best protection for Trump is to have someone as his vice president who is even more feared by the establishment.  If Trump picks Tucker Carlson or Vivek Ramaswamy and gets elected, he becomes much safer.  If he picks Alex Jones, the establishment would actually cozy up to Trump at that point to make sure he stays at the top.  Trump should just avoid being in the same place as any of these people.

If Trump picks some establishment figure, then the establishment will really want Trump out.  They will continue to try impeachment, jail, or anything else that might work.

A Signal of a Second Term

The other important reason for picking a vice president that is somewhat radical in favor of liberty is that it is going to tell us what a Trump second (non-consecutive) term will look like.  One of the biggest faults of Trump in his first term is that he surrounded himself by people who hated him.  The few decent people were conveniently prosecuted by the feds.  It’s funny how that works.

If Trump is going to have another term of surrounding himself with people like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, then I have little use for him.  He is still probably better than Biden, but that’s not saying much.  If Trump actually wants to take on the deep state, he can’t surround himself by the deep state.  He appointed all of the wrong people in almost every area last time.

Anyone who was associated with the Bush regime should be instantly taken out of consideration for Trump’s administration unless that person has repented in public.

In fact, if Trump wants to get to the presidency, he probably needs to understand this.

Losing Support

Perhaps this is a third reason that Trump’s VP pick is so important.  It goes along with it being a signal for what’s to come in a second term.

There has been some talk about Trump picking Nikki Haley as his running mate.  We have no idea if Trump is actually considering this.  I heard Tucker Carlson say that if he picks Haley, Tucker will not only not support Trump, but he will actively oppose him at that point.

Trump would lose support from a lot of MAGA people and libertarian-leaning conservatives.  Vivek has taken Nikki Haley down in a big way and exposed her for the corrupt and evil person that she is.  If Trump picks her, he will doom his own candidacy.

I can say personally that I would actively oppose Trump at that point.  I, of course, would never vote for Biden either.  If Trump picks Tucker or Vivek, there is a decent possibility I would vote for him, even if the Libertarian Party has a great candidate.

Even if Trump picks someone like Tim Scott or even DeSantis at this point, I would not support Trump at all.  It would just show that he learned nothing from four years in office.

I can say that I am basing my support for Trump on his pick for vice president.  It is going to tell me whether he figured anything out from his previous time.