No, Liz Cheney won’t be President Joe Biden’s running mate. No, Mitt Romney won’t be running with Vice President Kamala Harris. No, Hillary Clinton won’t be heading the Democratic ticket in 2024. All of these suggestions have been floated in the last few days to widespread scoffing.
But if you really want a completely ludicrous scenario, how about Biden inviting former State Secretary Mike Pompeo and former Vice President Mike Pence into his Cabinet while enlisting Romney as his earnest advocate for some of his key policies.
Totally off-the-wall, right? Except … that’s exactly what former President Franklin Roosevelt did at the most crucial juncture of his presidency.
In the summer of 1940, Hitler’s forces were rampaging through Europe. Paris had fallen; so had Norway and Denmark. The British military had barely escaped destruction with a mass evacuation of Dunkirk, and Britain itself was all but doomed to collapse without significant U.S. aid — aid that was opposed by a powerful isolationist movement in the United States.
