The anti-establishment Senate Conservatives Fund has just joined the National Republican Senatorial Committee in trying to persuade John James to run for the Michigan Senate seat that’s up in 2020. James should accept.

James has already served his country. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a former Army combat pilot. In 2018, James was defeated in his race against Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. — a throwaway race in which he performed unexpectedly well. But 2020 shouldn’t be about what James has done before, but rather what he can do now.