The problem with the Dems was what we saw these past few election cycles: the Dems never listen to their base. They could've let the voters decide who should best represent them — Mr Bee
the culmination of the last half-century of bipartisn Neoliberal de-industrialization – 'It's the structurally exploitative-systematically discriminatory Plutonomy, stupid!' – aided and abetted by corporatist Reality TV, WWE & Social Media which has groomed (radicalized) the precariat for reactionary populism???
Fuck me. — 180 Proof
Bernie. From the establishment's silencing of the right candidate for working class Americans came Trump's possibility to do what he's done. — creativesoul
My family gets annoyed with me 'shouting at the television'. — Wayfarer
I will note that the Trump phenomenon has normalised mendacity. — Wayfarer
when a country deliberately rejects decency, truth, democratic values and good governance, the problem is not a candidate, a party, the media or a feckless attorney general. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It requires a virtuous people devoted to democratic ideals. Whether we can recover the habits of mind — what we used to call civic virtue — will be the challenge of the next four years and beyond. — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
I don't know if Trump will actually do the things he promised. I hope not. But if he doesn't, his voters will be pissed.
Maybe I'll be unpleasantly surprised, but I am thinking it's more of the same. — Count Timothy von Icarus
The real shame will be 4 years of environmental deregulation, and the gutting of science. He’ll try to repeal the IRA, which may be possible now that they’ll have a trifecta (although a lot of republican districts have benefited, and with a slim house majority that may not fly). — Mikie
Also, and equally damaging, is the free reign of appointing judges, which will further the courts to the right for a generation. I imagine Alito or Thomas will retire, and Sotomayer is in poor health I hear— so he may get another 3. He’ll have a full 4 years of a Republican Senate too, because 2026 there’s no chance Dems take it back, given the map. — Mikie
But it’ll all likely swing back in ‘28. That is, if the party moves towards Bernie and away from the Clinton-Obama establishment neoliberal crowd. — Mikie
Anyone paying any attention to the temperature of the USA over the last 12 months would have seen this coming a mile off. As i did. Perhaps be less pedantic. — AmadeusD
Latino sexism maybe. — frank
American education system delivers yet again — Banno
"Just watch, once Trump increases the price of all imported goods on the consumer end, inflation will go down. That’s math or something. I think.”
Another aspect of the American education system that will be able to hold strong under Trump is their time honoured tradition of school shootings.
But it is very surprising when Latino countries such as Argentina had Cristina Kirchner or Eva Perón; in Honduras, Xiomara Castro is the President, etc. — javi2541997
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