[Rhetorical question with no reasonable answer] How can anybody want to start talking about 2024 election primaries now?

From a Washington Post article by Max Boot today (Dec. 1):

”A new McLaughlin/Newsmax poll of the 2024 Republican primary without Trump has Donald Trump Jr. tied for the lead with Vice President Pence at 20 percent. Ivanka Trump is at 4 percent. This isn’t the Republican Party. It’s the Trumplican Party. Support for the supreme leader trumps, so to speak, any devotion to democracy.”

I can’t even consider that statement without a sense of utter revulsion.

How can anyone but the most hardcore politicos possibly want to think about the next election now? I personally am exhausted by elections and would rather think about the next intergalactic cataclysm.