the ohio governor john kasich, or bill kristol, and they really didn t seem to have a lot of options besides governor kasich of ohio for 2020 challenger. romney s entering into this conversation now with this op-ed in the washington post, giving permission, as kristol told me today, for donors throughout the party, people who are calling up spencer zwick, romney s top finance guy, and saying maybe romney can be a 20820 challenger, not if president trump s at 85%, 90% with gop voters. this is all about laying the foundation for a 2020 challenge should robert mueller s investigation hobble the trump presidency, should president trump leave office for some reason. this is all about romney setting in motion something that could happen. he s not moving formally toward a race, but this is giving traction, giving political capital to a movement in the republican party, that never trump bloc that had all but become stagnant. it does, a.b., play out sort of the long game that robert s outli