… during a stock market boom in the roaring 90s when the internet was fun and the President was a good ol’ boy who even his opponents liked (and grew more popular as the proceedings went on, one of the reasons why he won)
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… during a trade war and a government shutdown caused by a racist President, one whom nobody likes, who is financially beholden to Vladimir Putin’s buddies, one whose political fortunes have dropped by an average of 1 point per week the past 5 weeks, one whom 62% of independents have already decided to vote against him in 2020.
Just sayin’, it could happen, and the right-wing talking heads are going to trot this talking point out, so just a friendly reminder from ol’ Dacien to prep your rebuttals now when the vote is upon us.
I think focusing on reality is a pretty good rebuttal. This man has spit on the very people you are saying is going to defend him. The only reason they would do that to the conclusion you reach is if they are complicit themselves.
I don’t know how anyone will look at their friends and family members and neighbours who cheered for this ignorant, petulant, incompetent racist boob the same way ever again, regardless of the future political fortunes of the Republican party. Trump’s leaving won’t suddenly turn his supporters into decent human beings, they’ll still be the kinds of people who support torturing prisoners and murdering their families or kidnapping children and putting them in internment camps long after Trump’s skeleton falls out of the gibbet.
Luckily, the vast majority of Americans, even those that voted for Trump, are much more nuanced and complex, and do not support torture, murder, and kidnapping.
Every Trump supporter supports these things, either explicitly out of racism or xenophobia, or implicitly out of a desire for tax breaks or conservative judges on the Supreme Court or whatever they’re getting in return for voting for a torture loving racist scumbag. The latter sort are no less vile than the former.
Assuming this is true, I’m setting aside another bucket of popcorn for the reaction of CFSG’s base. Yes, a great many of them will man the Fake News barricades to the bitter end; on the other hand, second only to a woman scorned is the fury of a True Believer who comes to realize — as some do — that (s)he has been led down the garden path. The belated recriminations and crocodile tears should be a sight to behold.
(Notwithstanding the above, should CFSG resign or be removed from office I expect that my reaction will be what I felt when Nixon departed: not gloating, but the same sense of relief that descends when one stops hitting oneself on the head with a hammer.)
Do we all agree that this is the most historic time in American political history since Watergate if not the Civil War or the founding era? And the most significant period in all of world history since the Berlin Wall came down?
And by the way: that piddly $12k that Cohen/Trump paid to rig the polling was undoubtedly a violation of campaign finance laws. Just another drop in the bucket, of course.
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