They only allow so many views and for only 14 days. One last try? (No guarantees, natch.)
For those who don’t make it to the link.
I think the fundamental answer to this question, and to the OP’s, is that, in the general human population, there is a huge number of intellectually lazy and stupid people. Trump’s movement, however, allowed and/or enabled them to become obvious, and social media allowed them to connect and form a critical mass.
I wasn’t sure where to put this, but Michael Steele has a good snapshot of the party’s troubles.
Agree completely. In fact, I’d say it’s the majority of Americans. I started a thread on this a month or two ago. It’s my belief that most people lack the critical thinking and analytical skills an informed decision for president requires. And every four years we ask this cohort of dimwits to try again.
When we get it right, it’s just luck.
I’ll believe I see them get obliterated in a major election, i.e. this upcoming election. People have been predicting for years that the Republicans/Democrats are history. But it never materializes. The Republicans seem to have the support to win this election, in my opinion. I’d give Trump a 70% chance of being elected president.
Biden does not seem to get much credit for his accomplishments. However, he also seems to think that accomplishing things is enough. These days, it is not. The Democrats are relying on logic to convince people Obamacare should not be dismantled or convince women and others abortion rights are important.
As a Canadian outsider, in my view the Democrats also need to better appeal to emotion. They need to get traditional supporters out to vote and give them good reasons to; not assume they can connect the dots as well as Dopers. They need to stop fighting each other. And they need to emphasize the long-term plans espoused by some people that may overemphasize power over progress, plutocrats over prosperity, pugnacity over peace or populism over parliaments.
I agree. The GOP is way better at power politics and messaging—in fact, I think that’s the only things they’re better at, but that’s what counts with a lot of people.
BTW, good work with the p’s.
What Steele points to lost the GOP votes in 2020, and will do so again. For example:
Republicans pushing to embrace mail-in voting encounter widespread resistance
I mailed my Pennsylvania Democratic Party primary ballot today, and will mail in my ballot again in October. Most Pennsylvania Democrats do.
Because of refusal to cast mail ballots, many GOP voters will miss the general election due to illness, weather, car trouble, or having recently died. However, the same was true in 2020, and Trump, while losing, beat his polling averages in the actual results.
Trump is still viable, despite this GOP weakness, for many reasons mentioned earlier in the thread.
P.S. In some states, including mine, mail ballots become theoretically invalid if the voter dies before election day. In practice, this is unlikely to be noticed.
Did you see what Trump did (going on random tangents before putting an onion on his belt, which was the fashion of the time)? It’s called intelligence…
trump should be compelled to provide the names of the doctors who are executing babies after they’re born. He must have proof because this is something you don’t just make up.
That Dr. Moreau is a likely suspect. And Dr. Frankenstein.
Trump and Johnson announce joint plan to steal the election.
trump lies again-
In a video statement outlining his position on abortion, former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that “all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade “be ended.” Legal scholars told us that was “utter nonsense” and “patently absurd.”
Mind you Roe did have some legal issues-
These experts said some scholars have had criticisms of the legal reasoning in Roe, but that doesn’t mean they wanted the ruling overturned. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it would have been better to base the abortion rights ruling on the equal protection clause of the Constitution, or gender equality, as opposed to a right to privacy under the due process clause, which is how the opinion was written.
Interesting gift link from The Economist on who, and what age or sex or religion or education, is plumping for Trump.
It turned out to be not much they announced. Simply that proof or citizenship is required to vote. Because millions of illegals are registered to vote by Biden, as soon as they are arrested at the border.
I see that an old ambassador to Cuba was sentenced to 15 years for giving secrets to the Castro government. I would guess most Republicans would generally agree with this action and sentence. So why would anyone giving secrets to the Russians be dramatically different?
Surprising answer:
There was no quid pro quo. Trump was acting Presidential! Have you ever really looked at your hands?
Do we know Trump gave secrets to Russia?
I mean it wouldn’t surprise me a bit, and I would bet that he did, but do we have proof?
Know by the preponderance of evidence?
Yes.
Know for a certainty?
No, giving yet another reason why Trump is still viable.
See this from Wikipedia:
Donald Trump’s disclosures of classified information
Here is the key anonymously sourced Washington Post article:
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
According to CNN:
US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
My last link has good information on something I normally question – that secrets given former president Trump were important ones:
Polling now dead even for nationwide poll. More important: Trump went down. 2024 General Election: Trump vs. Biden Polls | RealClearPolling