![]() His will is tremendous, and he gets people to follow him. ![]() “But here’s the thing-he makes things happen. “He does have a tendency to ready-fire-aim,” says Mike Hartley, who helped run Kasich’s 2010 campaign for governor and worked in his administration. They describe Kasich as a sort of heartland Chris Christie-brash, decisive, authentic-without all the baggage. ![]() >But while Kasich can be rude-and at times even genuinely nasty-he is also prone to spontaneous displays of empathy, frequently becoming emotional as he talks about the plight of people “in the shadows.” To his allies, these traits are two sides of the same coin. At a Kasich press conference I attended at a charter school in Cleveland, he interrupted several speakers, wandered off to rummage on a nearby teacher’s desk as he was being introduced, and gleefully insulted the Cleveland Browns, to a smattering of boos. He said that my job, writing about politics and politicians, was “really a dumb thing to do.” Later, he singled me out in a meeting of cabinet officials to upbraid me for what he considered a stupid question in one of our interviews. >I spent several days with Kasich in Ohio in February, and during that time he told me, repeatedly, that he did not read The Atlantic-and his wife didn’t, either. As I was writing this article, Kasich’s press secretary, Rob Nichols, helpfully emailed me the thesaurus entry for “prickly,” sensing that I would need it. A top Ohio Republican donor once publicly vowed not to give Kasich a penny after finding him to be “unpleasantly arrogant.” As a congressman, Kasich sometimes lashed out at constituents-one who called him a “redneck” in a 1985 letter got a reply recommending he “enroll in a remedial course on protocol”-and when Kasich was thrown out of a Grateful Dead concert for trying to join the band onstage, he allegedly threatened to use his clout to have the band banned from D.C. >Lobbyists in Columbus warn their clients before meeting the governor not to take it personally if he berates them. >The thing about John Kasich is, he’s kind of a jerk. It seems Kasich is suppressing a personality that is not all that dissimilar from Trump's. Step into the wayback machine and read this article from the atlantic. ![]() >Kasich is a mild-mannered sensible candidate to balance Trump. ![]()
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