Posted this in the Canadian politics thread.
I was pretty disappointed that Joe Biden was the candidate the Democrats went with. Especially considering Andrew Yang was in the running.
I just don't think it'll be enough to beat Trump. Not with everything going on, and so many happy to just throw 'fascist and dictator' around, as if Trump were even capable of doing that.
The other thing is that Trump has a solid China policy going, something the media loves to ignore, and we already know that he won a lot of votes in 2016 by telling people he'll bring jobs back from China.
If the Democrats don't move beyond the whole stupidity around 'dictator' and 'fascist' I would be pretty concerned. I agree with Taibbi, Trump doesn't lack the foresight or ability to be a dictator.
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We’ve been living with Trump for so long, we’ve gotten out of the habit of asking the basic questions we normally ask, when a famous person says something odd. What is he thinking? Is he being serious? Does he mean this as metaphor — is he talking about the donors and party higher-ups who may indeed have outsize influence behind his elderly opponent’s candidacy — or does he really believe in a nebulous, Three Days of the Condor-style secret spooks’ club, working after hours to install a socialist dictatorship through Joe Biden?
Donald Trump is so unlike most people, and so especially unlike anyone raised under a conventional moral framework, that he’s perpetually misdiagnosed. The words we see slapped on him most often, like “fascist” and “authoritarian,” nowhere near describe what he really is, and I don’t mean that as a compliment. It’s been proven across four years that Trump lacks the attention span or ambition required to implement a true dictatorial regime. He might not have a moral problem with the idea, but two minutes into the plan he’d leave the room, phone in hand, to throw on a robe and watch himself on Fox and Friends over a cheeseburger.
The elite misread of Trump is egregious because he’s an easily familiar type to the rest of America. We’re a sales culture and Trump is a salesman. Moreover he’s not just any salesman; he might be the greatest salesman ever, considering the quality of the product, i.e. himself. He’s up to his eyes in balls, and the parts of the brain that hold most people back from selling schlock online degrees or tchotchkes door-to-door are absent. He has no shame, will say anything, and experiences morality the way the rest of us deal with indigestion.
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https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-tr...s-and-needs-to