Thanks for the feedback. I absolutely agree we’re in for dark times no matter who wins, and I can’t blame anyone for voting Trump strictly on the basis of what he isn’t—as long as they’re honest about it.
On to your points:
1) Certainly there are leftist depths Democrats haven’t gotten to yet—I have no doubt we’ll see in our lifetimes a national Democrat leader stick up for “minor-attracted persons,” for instance—but I really don’t think there’s any daylight between Biden and Harris in terms of the range of leftist ideas that are currently accepted in the Democrat Party. Every hideous thing she did in California, he was fine with when he picked her. Maybe this point wasn’t worth the attention I gave it, but I wanted to push back on the talking point that swapping him for her was some ideological quantum leap for the next 4-year forecast that changed the voting calculation.
2 & 3) As for the Senate, I have no doubt there are things GOP squishes will cross the aisle on, but I’m not counting on them for that. I’m concerned exclusively with preventing them from nuking the filibuster, which is what Democrats need for the items we really couldn’t recover from (such as court-packing). And I loathe Collins and Murkowski as much as anyone, but they’ve AT LEAST been consistent on opposing that.
4) You’re right that there’s no guarantee of a twice-defeated Trump not trying to sabotage things in 2026 and beyond. But I see every risk to his loss as more that canceled out by the risks of the alternative. If even that isn’t enough to break his spell on the Right, then our movement is probably too far gone anyway and all of this is just playing with the Titanic’s deck chairs.
AMEN to everything you wrote about Trump, conservatives, and the Republican Party.
Once upon a time (back in 2016), the MAGA followers looked at Trump as a refreshingly hard-core "anti-establishment" politician who was opposed to the establishment RINO's in the GOP.
Now we've come full-circle, and those same MAGA ppl openly admit they'll vote for Trump because he's simply not a "communist" like Harris, ..and is the "lesser of two evils" between himself and Kamala. ..which is the EXACT SAME REASONING that RINO's have used for decades to justify voting for them over the Democrats.
In other words, Trump has morphed into just another MILQUETOAST BRAND of RINO in the Republican Party, and his followers are fine with voting for that.
And the MAGA-crowd CAN'T seem to grasp their own hypocrisy! ...because they're a cult!!
Thanks for the feedback. I absolutely agree we’re in for dark times no matter who wins, and I can’t blame anyone for voting Trump strictly on the basis of what he isn’t—as long as they’re honest about it.
On to your points:
1) Certainly there are leftist depths Democrats haven’t gotten to yet—I have no doubt we’ll see in our lifetimes a national Democrat leader stick up for “minor-attracted persons,” for instance—but I really don’t think there’s any daylight between Biden and Harris in terms of the range of leftist ideas that are currently accepted in the Democrat Party. Every hideous thing she did in California, he was fine with when he picked her. Maybe this point wasn’t worth the attention I gave it, but I wanted to push back on the talking point that swapping him for her was some ideological quantum leap for the next 4-year forecast that changed the voting calculation.
2 & 3) As for the Senate, I have no doubt there are things GOP squishes will cross the aisle on, but I’m not counting on them for that. I’m concerned exclusively with preventing them from nuking the filibuster, which is what Democrats need for the items we really couldn’t recover from (such as court-packing). And I loathe Collins and Murkowski as much as anyone, but they’ve AT LEAST been consistent on opposing that.
4) You’re right that there’s no guarantee of a twice-defeated Trump not trying to sabotage things in 2026 and beyond. But I see every risk to his loss as more that canceled out by the risks of the alternative. If even that isn’t enough to break his spell on the Right, then our movement is probably too far gone anyway and all of this is just playing with the Titanic’s deck chairs.
AMEN to everything you wrote about Trump, conservatives, and the Republican Party.
Once upon a time (back in 2016), the MAGA followers looked at Trump as a refreshingly hard-core "anti-establishment" politician who was opposed to the establishment RINO's in the GOP.
Now we've come full-circle, and those same MAGA ppl openly admit they'll vote for Trump because he's simply not a "communist" like Harris, ..and is the "lesser of two evils" between himself and Kamala. ..which is the EXACT SAME REASONING that RINO's have used for decades to justify voting for them over the Democrats.
In other words, Trump has morphed into just another MILQUETOAST BRAND of RINO in the Republican Party, and his followers are fine with voting for that.
And the MAGA-crowd CAN'T seem to grasp their own hypocrisy! ...because they're a cult!!