In 2022, just a few months away from finishing nearly a decade at the helm of Purdue University, former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was asked if his brand of conservatism — pragmatic, frugal, respectful — could survive in today’s Republican Party. At first, he dodged the question, saying that after a decade at Purdue he’d essentially been in a political quarantine.
But Daniels was mulling a run for the Senate, and one advantage he’d bring back to the political arena is that he hadn’t been “infected by the viruses that are running around on both sides.”
Daniels would bring “sanity” back to Washington, a longtime friend told The New York Times. “It would be kind of like when Cicero went back to the Roman Senate to provide wisdom.”
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