Stephen A. for WHAT?

 Look, I don't know much, and the people who know me best will back me up on this. But what I really don't know is how we got to a place in America where ESPN's lead blowhole (Stephen A. Smith) lands on a sports website (Awful Announcing) because he said on The View he'd consider running for President in 2028 it he thought he had a shot.

Oh, wait. I do know how we got to this place. 

We got this place when the once and future President, Donald J. Trump, ran for the White House in 2016 and somehow won. And then lost in 2020, and then won again Tuesday because a whole bunch of people who should have known better handed him a landslide victory.

So Stephen A. for President?

Why the hell not?

Granted, it's a preposterous notion, but is it really any more preposterous than Training Wheels Mussolini was in 2016? Like Stephen A., he'd never held public office of any sort. And he'd prepared for the job by hosting a reality show and running through his rich daddy's money (and his brother's piece of it) in one failed business venture/con after another. 

Not only was he a lousy businessman, he was a crooked one -- a man held in such contempt by a sizeable portion of America that, just four years before, racing fans raised holy hell when the Indianapolis Motor Speedway floated the idea of having him drive the pace car for the 500.

Still, he won. And then convinced a lot of people who should have known better that he was a really smart guy who, in his first term, ended crime, kept those damn Mexicans on the other side of the border, gave us cheap gas by making us energy independent and brought about world peace.

Or so the story goes.

As for Stephen A. ...

Yeah, he makes his coin yelling about sports on ESPN. But he also ventures into the political realm occasionally on Fox with his pal Sean Hannity. So you could say without it sounding too ridiculous that he's more familiar with that landscape than the president-elect was eight years ago.

"I dunno, Mr. Blob," you're saying now. "That sounds pretty damn ridiculous if you ask me."

I get that. And if these were ordinary times, I'd agree with you. 

But these are anything but ordinary times. More than half the electorate apparently believes Venezuelan drug cartels are taking over whole cities, and Haitian immigrants are making filet mignon out of the family pooch. And more than half the electorate also apparently believes little Johnny's coming home from school as little Suzie ... and there's actually a "war on Christmas" simply because some people say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" ... and vaccines are killing Americans in droves.

The rest of us?

We're suddenly strangers in an exceedingly strange land. And so the idea of Stephen A. running for President in 2028 seems no more strange than anything else these days.

Although if he made his former sidekick/sparring partner Skip Bayless his running mate, that would really be weird.