Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

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Read the whole thing:

"For four years Donald Trump has proven himself a corrupt, mendacious ignoramus utterly unfit for the position he holds. He's led the nation through a pandemic that has left nearly a quarter million dead, is currently surging unchecked across the country, and has devastated the economy. And yet, the current tally shows him beating his showing from 2016 by 3.7 million votes. Trump may well come up short where it counts, but he still gained ground with the electorate relative to four years ago.

So please, Democrats, look in the mirror and show a little humility. You're not nearly as self-evidently wonderful or widely loved as you'd like to believe. You are not destined to prevail anywhere. You share a country with a large group of people who hate your guts, and who aren't going to submit to your rule or go along with your giddy plans to remake the nation in your image. It's time to start acting like you understand this implacable fact and all it implies about the limits of your power and the parameters of the possible.

American politics is a war of attrition right now. The sooner Democrats learn to live with that fact, the better."

https://theweek.com/articles/947824/left-just-got-crushed
 
carlos21 said:
Where are my pics.
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Carlos I posted them in the wrong thread, sorry. I was so tired last night that I posted them in the Christmas thread. Here is proof. Sorry. I will post them in a bit again, hopefully in the right place. Give me just a few minutes as I need to catch up with some work emails.

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abelard said:

Black men drifted from Democrats toward Trump in record numbers, polls show​


President Donald Trump picked up more Latino voters in several key battleground states than he won in 2016, according to results of a nationwide CNN exit poll.

The 'everyone I don't like is racist' button is starting to malfunction.

www.newyorker.com

Can Republicans Become a Multiracial Working-Class Party?

For the G.O.P., the future may look like Florida, which is growing less white but not much less conservative.
www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com

But, in Tuesday night’s results, the imprint of class was, if anything, clearer than it had been four years ago. Voters without college degrees continued to slide toward Republicans, and those with them, toward Democrats: according to exit polls, Joe Biden won college-educated voters by thirteen points. In the Midwest, even union ties may have done little to tether non-college-educated voters to Democrats. According to exit polls in Ohio, voters in union households favored Trump by fourteen points; those in non-union households favored him by just eight.

...At the same time, in an interesting juxtaposition, a ballot measure that will raise Florida’s minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour passed with more than sixty per cent of the vote, winning even in conservative Florida counties like Polk, Pasco, and Sumter. Not long ago, only socialists and trade-unionists were willing to get behind a fifteen-dollar-an-hour minimum wage. You could look at numbers like these and think all that remains is for Republican politicians to follow the lead of their voters.

This is why the 'Sanders would have lost by even more' arguments are so incoherent. Liberals, following their nice, orderly spectrum of left-centre-right, observe the mounting backlash against professional-class identity politics and conclude it also must mean voters are opposed to minimum wage hikes and medicare for all, too. So they ignore the mountain of data showing that these are overwhelmingly popular with voters of both parties, and determine that they need to campaign on incoherent and ideologically-radical pro-market policy contortions like subsidised private insurance instead, because according to their delusional logic this signals 'moderation' and 'centrism'.

It couldn't be further from the truth.

Left-wing policy ideas are overwhelmingly popular with swing Republican voters. Professional class liberal identity politics and wokeness oblige is extremely unpopular with working class voters, all Republican voters, and just about anyone without a college degree, which you effectively need at this point just to be able to determine what the proper etiquette around 'racism' even means. This is why the two most pointedly unwoke candidates ran away with it even in the Democratic primary. American voters hate liberals - but they do not remgard Sanders as a liberal, which is why he is so popular with ordinary voters in both parties. The professional class which runs the Democratic Party observes this well-earned loathing and assumes it means voters must hate Sanders even more, since on their orderly but illusory spectrum he is the most 'liberal' of all. But this is wrong. What voters refer to when they say the hate liberals are people like Elizabeth Warren or Pete Buttigieg or, probably most of all, Kamala Harris, who the Democrats are now all but stuck with in 2024 despite being comprehensively and humiliatingly rejected even by her own party. In four years they will be utterly annihilated, and they will deserve it.

The future of American politics belongs to whoever figures out that the Red-Blue divide will be decisively bridged by a candidate promising left-wing economics and right-wing patriotism - and surprisingly strong showing but ultimate defeat of Donald Trump paves the way for Republicans who have already realised at exactly the same moment that the Democrats have doubled-down on the exceedingly unpopular obverse: condescending performative wokeness and professional class liberal sanctimony combined with a very deliberate rejection of overwhelmingly popular economic policies. Get ready for President Tucker Carlson in 2024.
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Christ Abe, Biden hasn’t even won yet and you’re posting “in four years they will be utterly annihilated, and they will deserve it” and “President Tucker Carlson”.

Could you perhaps just wait a week like? lol
 
Sassy Colombian said:
Carlos I posted them in the wrong thread, sorry. I was so tired last night that I posted them in the Christmas thread. Here is proof. Sorry. I will post them in a bit again, hopefully in the right place. Give me just a few minutes as I need to catch up with some work emails.

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Listen no worries about that everyone does stupid things.
 
mezzrow said:
"For four years Donald Trump has proven himself a corrupt, mendacious ignoramus utterly unfit for the position he holds. He's led the nation through a pandemic that has left nearly a quarter million dead, is currently surging unchecked across the country, and has devastated the economy.
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And it's the DEMOCRATS' fault!!
 
Prevenger17 said:
I would have much preferred Sanders, but it does kinda look like a record turnout for Biden there, doesn't it Abe?
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Yes, mostly in states that don't matter.

And so did Donald Trump, too, by winning over the Democrats' core constituents and improving his standing among every single constituency except white men.

Even with historic turnout, Biden has dramatically underperformed relative to the polls; the Republicans have almost certainly held the Senate; and the Democrats have somehow managed to lose ground in the House, in historically favourable circumstances.

The writing is on the wall. The Democrats will never have Donald Trump to run against again, and won't have the pandemic to save them in 2024 either. They have doubled-down on an exceedingly unpopular heir, and spent the past decade smothering the only candidate they have who can actually win Republican voters.
 
mezzrow said:
Read the whole thing:

"For four years Donald Trump has proven himself a corrupt, mendacious ignoramus utterly unfit for the position he holds. He's led the nation through a pandemic that has left nearly a quarter million dead, is currently surging unchecked across the country, and has devastated the economy. And yet, the current tally shows him beating his showing from 2016 by 3.7 million votes. Trump may well come up short where it counts, but he still gained ground with the electorate relative to four years ago.

So please, Democrats, look in the mirror and show a little humility. You're not nearly as self-evidently wonderful or widely loved as you'd like to believe. You are not destined to prevail anywhere. You share a country with a large group of people who hate your guts, and who aren't going to submit to your rule or go along with your giddy plans to remake the nation in your image. It's time to start acting like you understand this implacable fact and all it implies about the limits of your power and the parameters of the possible.

American politics is a war of attrition right now. The sooner Democrats learn to live with that fact, the better."

https://theweek.com/articles/947824/left-just-got-crushed
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Has 'My wife left me last week. Jokes on her though, she won't ever find anyone as ugly as me again!' vibes this.
 
Prevenger17 said:
And it's the DEMOCRATS' fault!!
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To the extent that the media in 2016 consisted of Democrats and their plans to promote the easily defeated oaf and assure a no-sweat Hillary Clinton victory,

Yes. It's not a question of intent, it's a question of competence. Nobody ever asked one simple little question :

"what could possibly go wrong?"

We know more now than we did then. The same people need to ask themselves the same question, because we're talking about exactly the same people that were sitting there in 2016. Even if they are in their eighties, now. They need to move on and let some other people decide what to do next, for one thing.
 
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