Is Gov Kasich laying the groundwork for a 2020 Prez run or just pushing book sales – PB/TK
John Kasich says cultural erosion helped Trump rise – by
On a breezy spring morning, Ohio Gov. John Kasich decides to ditch the black SUV in favor of walking about a mile from the CBS studio, where he has just been on Face the Nation, to his next interview about his new book at USA TODAY’s bureau.
A videographer from TMZ Sports is waiting at the curb to ask him about Cleveland Cavaliers’ All-Star guard Kyrie Irving’s assertion that the Earth is flat — “We just care when Kyrie has the ball that the ball is round and not flat,” Kasich responds — and a kid in a T-shirt, heading into a subway station, spins around and asks for a selfie. A couple visiting from Dayton introduce themselves and say they voted for him, “and we’re not life-long Republicans.”
It’s a friendlier reception that he got at times in the GOP presidential primaries in 2016.
Almost exactly a year ago, Kasich dropped out of the race — he had won just one contest, in his home state — eliminating the final challenger to Donald Trump’s steamroller ride to the Republican nomination. But Kasich refused to endorse Trump, to consider joining him on the GOP ticket or to vote for him in November. (He wrote Arizona Sen. John McCain’s name on the ballot instead.)
In Two Paths: America Divided or United, being published Tuesday by Thomas Dunne Books, Kasich argues that Trump was able to win the nomination and the White House against all expectations by tapping a long-term erosion in American culture that has left many voters feeling that their lives are spiraling out of control. “That fear turned out to be the driving emotion of the 2016 presidential campaign, and the front-runner tailored his message to stoke that fear,” he wrote.
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