Posted on 05/17/2024 3:05:53 PM PDT by Vendome
democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860. It will also be the weirdest. two facts about this campaign that do not appear to be making much of an impact on what seems to be close to a majority of the electorate. The first more obvious one is few people in history have ever been less qualified to hold a position of any responsibility, ...than Donald Trump. If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions.
The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president. His embrace of Bibi Netanyahu has clearly had disastrous consequences for Israel, Gaza, the United States, and for his own reelection prospects. But in terms of the way presidents are traditionally measured, Biden has been a smash. The U.S. economy is the envy of the world. Yes, inflation is higher than one would like, but jobs are plentiful, and so are raises for the people in them; wages are rising faster than inflation, as it happens. Violent crime is way down. Infrastructure investments are way up since 2020. Student loans are being forgiven. The labor movement is rebounding. We are leading the world in defending democracy in Ukraine.
Consider just a few of Trump’s qualities that quite recently would have disqualified him in the eyes of all responsible voices in the discourse. I have no room to do justice to even a fraction, so I’ll have to stick to just keywords: insurrectionist; election denier; pathological liar; corrupt; racist; antisemite; (digital) rapist; serial adulterer; Islamophobe; con man; tax cheat; patsy to dictator; wannabe dictator; isolationist; bully; psychopathically narcissist; sociopath; almost certainly medically demented.
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At all.
I wonder how he’d like living in Venezuela 🇻🇪 or North Korea 🇰🇵.
the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860.
< shrug>. Every election is "the mostest importentist since forever eleventy!"
The first more obvious one is few people in history have ever been less qualified to hold a position of any responsibility, ...than Donald Trump.
Yeah, but, the thing about Trump is, "he's not them."
IMHO, this essay verges on libel!
Sue him President Trump!
Clean his clock!
I doubt it.
Very.
Alterman is big-time weirdo leftist.
I’m glad he’s nervous & unhappy.
I keep an eye on the stossel election prediction. So far Trump is behind in the 3 states that will decide the election, and too close in AR, NV and GA.
We want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. A second time. Maybe another Biden won’t come along to screw it up another time.
Excellent point. If Trump is another Hitler and hell bent on destruction of the US, why didn’t any of that happen in his 1st term?
Gif....
So some still hold out their silly mythical belief that there are no space alien hybrids ready to replace humans?👽
Alterman's media criticism was the subject of two of his books. In contrast to conservative media commentators, Alterman argues that the press is biased against liberals rather than biased in their favor.
Exactly.
Eric Alterman. ‘Nuff said.
No. If they thought it looked good, they wouldn't be panicked. Their way leads to ruin... but they hate the alternative. They would rather virtue-signal in Hell than put up with truth, justice, and the American way.
Eric Alterkaker.
If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions.
That would be a democrat thing and true republicans of our great republic do not have a problem with bringing down the joke biden playhouse and all it’s perks and graft.
This has to be satire.
Gaslighting.
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