"National Review editor in chief Rich Lowry ... in an opinion piece for the New York Times": Stop right there. Rich "Starbursts" Lowry is a ridiculous fool, and he presides over a noxious rag. Within the past few years, that rag has published, among other vicious idiots, Erick Erickson - who, for example, called David Souter a "goat fucking child molester"; Ben Shapiro - who, for example, refused to call Caitlyn Jenner "she", asserting that doing so would be "mainstreaming delusion"; and Dinesh D'Souza - who, for example, mocked the survivors of the Parkland high school shooting for their efforts to persuade the Florida legislature to ban assault rifles, calling the legislature's refusal to do so "worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs". There's no excuse whatsoever for handing a megaphone to Rich Lowry; it's a sociopathic act. This kind of thing is why I now ignore the New York Times.
As for DePravis, I think he stands a chance of winning the nomination if Cheetolini dies soon enough. Otherwise, it's very unlikely. Everything else you mention that might happen to Cheetolini could hurt him in the general but not in the primaries. Republican primary voters are bottomlessly awful.
The whole conversation is Alice-in-Wonderland-ish. Both Cheetolini and DePravis are grossly unfit for public office. That they held or hold public offices indicates that the American political system is wildly dysfunctional and hence desperately in need of overhaul or replacement. But instead of saying that, the NYT and its ilk carry on as if nothing were amiss. American democracy is being torched, and not only have they apparently not noticed the heat and smoke, they hand their megaphone to clowns like Lowry and worse-than-clowns like Tommy Cotton who eagerly fan the flames.
"National Review editor in chief Rich Lowry ... in an opinion piece for the New York Times": Stop right there. Rich "Starbursts" Lowry is a ridiculous fool, and he presides over a noxious rag. Within the past few years, that rag has published, among other vicious idiots, Erick Erickson - who, for example, called David Souter a "goat fucking child molester"; Ben Shapiro - who, for example, refused to call Caitlyn Jenner "she", asserting that doing so would be "mainstreaming delusion"; and Dinesh D'Souza - who, for example, mocked the survivors of the Parkland high school shooting for their efforts to persuade the Florida legislature to ban assault rifles, calling the legislature's refusal to do so "worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs". There's no excuse whatsoever for handing a megaphone to Rich Lowry; it's a sociopathic act. This kind of thing is why I now ignore the New York Times.
As for DePravis, I think he stands a chance of winning the nomination if Cheetolini dies soon enough. Otherwise, it's very unlikely. Everything else you mention that might happen to Cheetolini could hurt him in the general but not in the primaries. Republican primary voters are bottomlessly awful.
The whole conversation is Alice-in-Wonderland-ish. Both Cheetolini and DePravis are grossly unfit for public office. That they held or hold public offices indicates that the American political system is wildly dysfunctional and hence desperately in need of overhaul or replacement. But instead of saying that, the NYT and its ilk carry on as if nothing were amiss. American democracy is being torched, and not only have they apparently not noticed the heat and smoke, they hand their megaphone to clowns like Lowry and worse-than-clowns like Tommy Cotton who eagerly fan the flames.