Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

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abelard said:
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.
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Republican voters were never going to plump for Sanders. If the Republicans could convince Latino Floridians that Biden was a socialist, they could have convinced them that Sanders was the reincarnation of Josef Stalin. But this isn't a victory for Democrats, it's a victory for democracy, however short term that is. His reaction to the mail-in-ballots have been those of a tinpot dictator. Four more years of him could have done untold damage to their electoral process as he filled up civil service positions with cronies and sycophants. That is not the fault of the democrats, it is the fault of the people who voted for Trump and still went out to vote for him despite the clear evidence that he is grossly unfit for office. They drove America in to the arms of Joe Biden, possibly the most uninspiring candidate imaginable
 
mezzrow said:
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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To some extent, yes. However, at this time in 2016, the person who currently looks to be the odds on favorite to become Vice President was the AG of California, had just been elected to the senate for the first time, and had almost no nationwide name recognition.
 
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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How did you vote on the minimum wage proposition, Muzzruh?
 
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