Well, America..... It seems that you have elected to live through a live Civics Experiment for the next 4-10 years..... The VERY best of luck with that. You're going to NEED it..... [shakes head]
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The House and Senate both shifted red. I think you're missing how pissed off people are about the way things are going. One yuge union declined to endorse the Dems, and unions have been a lock-in for them since...the last century. Two major very-liberal papers didn't endorse Ms "Appointed without a Primary" Harris, and one of his allies -- Tulsi Gabbard--- is an antiwar reservist who has previously endorsed Bernie Sanders. The Democrats have completely lost touch with what people want, so consumed are they by the politics of division and identity obsession -- and they're contemptuous of people. Did you see those ads they were running? One ad is depicting women as being threatened by their husbands to vote The Right Way, which is utterly misandrist, and then another ad has a bunch of dudes who no one would confuse with masculine inspirations saying they were man enough to vote Kamala. They have lost the plot. This is their 2008 "Wow, we just got our asses kicked, we need to have a come to Jesus moment." I hope they do. However, I think they'll just take the "Wacist wacist wacist Putin Putin Putin" view.
One thing it does underline is that I clearly have VERY little understanding of your country. I do think if even some of Project 2025 gets implemented that people will regret their decision to re-elect Trump. It's going to be 'interesting' to watch from the other side of the Atlantic but I really don't think that things will go as well as some are hoping. We'll see I guess...
Trump doesn't have any connection to 2025. It was created by another organization altogether in hopes of supporting him and some conception of the "MAGA" movement, but it's not his. Trump is....his own agenda and it's sometimes in self-contradiction. I'm hoping the team he's assembled will mediate his more....easily-distracted and impulsive qualities. He's not dealing with RNC dinosaurs anymore: Vance, Vivek, Tulsi, RFK are all coming from VERY different trajectories, to say nothing of Elon. It's going to be wild. Hoping he doesn't go all-in for Israel.
Well, I think we can agree on the fact that it's going to be WILD!
I'm with Dorothy.
Indeed. I'm coming to the conclusion that America isn't what the world thinks it is - or maybe even what IT thinks it is....
"I'm hoping the team he's assembled will mediate his more....easily-distracted and impulsive qualities." Good luck with that. They could rein him in a bit during his first term, it's going to much more difficult this time around.
Plus he has pretty much total immunity from the Supreme Court.... He's going to do whatever the hell he wants to do.... with zero consequences and he knows it!
Harris was a very weak candidate, unfortunately. She's never been very popular and she completely failed to galvanize the more progressive side of the Democratic party, e.g. the former Bernie supporters. Biden was little better, but it was a massive strategic error on their part to shoehorn her in at the last minute.
Its going to be 'interesting' to see how things play out now. Whether or not its just a more radical phase or a step-change I don't know. Either way I think its going to be quite disruptive in a lot of ways. The BIG question is, I think, will be if people will like the result?
I think if Trump lasts 4 years (physically) then it'll probably be gradual changes. If, worst case scenario, Vance gets in in the next year or two, I would expect some pretty aggressive policy pushing by project 2025 et al. And I don't think people will enjoy that.
I’m angry about how many people will die because of this election: Ukrainians, Palestinians, pregnant women, the poor, and there are many more.
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