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Post by jdredd on Feb 17, 2018 21:15:41 GMT -5
Well, I thanked God that the 2016 election was over prematurely. Who actually give a crap about what the Russkies did or didn't do? Did they change one vote? I doubt it. Once again, it's one more sign of the lack of real news.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 29, 2020 2:52:38 GMT -5
Trump will win or lose in 2020, but the stain on America of Trump's election in 2016 can never go away.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 1, 2020 23:19:30 GMT -5
Ya know, it really should not have shocked me as much as it did when a dirtbag like Trump rose to the top of the political heap. I'm reading a biography of Tricky Dick, and that nefarious character did it before. And he was reelected like Trump will probably be.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 10, 2020 10:43:56 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/2020-election-trump-pennsylvania.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Social issues matter as well — abortion and guns, a sense that Christianity is under attack. But what may have counted most four years ago was not any single issue, but a sensibility. Mr. Trump’s mix of bluster and grievance struck an emotional chord. “Trump is just on the wavelength of rural America in a way that previous Republicans were not,” said David Hopkins, an associate professor of political science at Boston College and the author of “Red Fighting Blue: How Geography and Electoral Rules Polarize American Politics.” “The very open nostalgia and nationalist themes in his campaign really appeal to people who live in parts of the country who feel their best days are behind them. I think that was a bigger factor than any specific issue, even immigration.” Ms. Cosmello, 65, grew up in the county. She had a career as a hairdresser and now works in the office at a hospice. “Mr. Trump is not a politician. He’s just a regular person and that’s what we are,” she said of the New York real estate developer who announced his candidacy in 2015 in the pink marble and brass atrium of his Trump Tower in Manhattan. “Sometimes he says things he shouldn’t, but the people I know just love the man. They trust him.” I will be contemplating Trump's Presidential victory in 2016 until I am pushing up daisies. America's big disgrace.
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Post by jdredd on May 4, 2021 12:40:19 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/opinion/trump-progressives.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"The key difference, he argues, isn’t sheer numbers but engagement, intensity and zeal. Liberals lately seem to just care a lot more about politics: They donate more, they protest more, they agitate more, in ways that change the incentives for public-facing institutions. Some of these gaps are longstanding, but others have opened only recently, with 2016 as the crucial turning point. That was the year when “the mobilization gap exploded,” creating irresistible pressure “from both within and outside corporations for them to take a stand on almost all hot button issues.” Why 2016? Well, probably because of Donald Trump: In Hanania’s data, his nomination and election looks like the great accelerant, with anti-Trump backlash driving liberal hyper-investment in politics to new heights, enabling progressives to achieve “true mass mobilization in a way conservatives never have in the modern era.” That mobilization has consolidated progressive norms in almost every institution susceptible to pressure from activists (or activist-employees), and it’s pulled the entire American establishment leftward, so that conservatives are suddenly at war with Major League Baseball and Coca-Cola instead of just Harvard and the Ford Foundation, and the custodians of the national security state are eager to prove their enlightenment by speaking in the argot of the academic left." Did Trump do just what I hoped he would do? Revive the left? Perhaps.
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