China, criminality and climate change are likely to be the major issues facing the GOP candidates for the party's presidential nomination. Of course the multiple criminal trials of the frontrunner, Donald tRump, will take center stage in any serious debate forum. Candidates with little or no chance of winning will nonetheless be reluctant to criticize Donny Two Scoops and thereby jeopardize their chances of joining a tRump administration.
China will be the secondary issue in the campaign. Although, much as Japan was in the 1990s, China will be feared and hated as the main challenger to America's global empire, the country is already running into the same sort of demographic problems which derailed Japan's ascendancy. However, that won't stop the candidates from bashing China and blaming Democrats for all problems associated with Sino-American relations.
Finally, they won't bring up the subject of climate change, but the infernal summer weather and the definitive consensus that burning fossil fuels is leading to permanent climate change will spark questions from the media and citizens at town halls which will be difficult to dodge. There will be a cottage industry on the right to provide deflective answers to difficult questions regarding climate and the legacy a waiting those who deny the science.
Of course most of these candidates will fall back on divisive cultural issues. But the substantive problems outlined above should provide plenty of fodder for Democratic ads calling our Republican obfuscation.
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