So... I agree that if the shoe was on the other foot, the Republican party would not step in to help the situation. However, I also wonder if we aren't already at the point where Trump and the GOP are toast regardless. Has enough already happened that they have no chance in November?
It's a very fine line between the Republicans getting blamed and accidentally destroying the economy by holding out on another bailout. I don't know, I'm not an expert. But what I'm getting at is, if this situation is already bad enough to finish off Trump and the Republican Senate, then there's zero point in letting it get any worse.
Further, I imagine, if it gets bad enough, that will start to reduce the chances there even is an election. I'm worried about a collapse where the election gets "postponed." The current postponements of primaries WILL help the GOP if it gives Russian asset Bernie an excuse to stay in the race until July or August.
The Dems and Biden need to walk a very, very fine line here, and I think there's a little more nuance, and several important factors you're not considering in this piece... They need to get rid of Bernie and get rid of Trump while maintaining a country and functioning system to elect them.
Do you think everything that has happened so far with Coronavirus is enough to take down Trump? Keep in mind that this is only going to get worse for a while.
Trump is extremely vulnerable on this because he got rid of the White House office that was there to counter pandemics and his budgets have slashed public health funding. The Dems can just HAMMER him on that over and over.
I deeply understand that Trump HAS TO GO, and I think the severity of the current situation is largely his fault, but how far do we, as a country, have to fall until we've fallen too far and Trump becomes the least of our problems? I'm sure it's a pretty fine line.
"how far do we, as a country, have to fall until we've fallen too far"
Dude, that happened in 1875 when white America decided Reconstruction was too much like hard work, and let the Confederacy make a Hydra-style comeback as the Lost Cause.
A country which only got to the point of admitting that black folks were real people inside of my lifetime (I'm 43) /has already/ fallen too far.
Unfortunately, we need more suffering to have them really toasted. Too many now believe a conspiracy theory of Democrats unleashing the coronavirus panic to bring down the economy and Trump. And there fore they will support him. They need more pain and suffering (and the rest of us with them) to finally realize that he is a con man and entire GOP evil.
My husband was just reading me some comments on our local Nextdoor - fortunately most of the people were rational and science based, but there was someone pushing the theory that it Coronavirus has spread in China and Italy because of 5g networks. Her "evidence"? A video her friend made. Lord, give me strength to bear the stupidity.
Yes, it is completely correct that you are not an expert.
We can tell this in several ways, including that you seem to think Sanders is a 'Russian Asset' - coming to that conclusion involves a) conflating democratic socialism with communism AND b) somehow believing that Putin's Russia is either of those things.
There's a reason Putin put his spies to work to help elect Trump, and why his people were cosying up to the religious right and the NRA - Russia is a far-right authoritarian state, exactly like the kind of thing the GOP want America to be.
Sanders isn't even close to being a fan of Putin's Russia. Nor is he even close to being a communist - in 34 out of 36 OECD nations, Sanders would be a moderate centre-right politician, his policies are that far from real democratic socialism.
America does not have a left at all - it has moderate centre-right social democrats (Bernie, etc.) through moderate centre-right conservatives (Biden etc.) and then a big gap, and then the far right ('moderate' Republicans'), the lunatic right ('mainstream' Republicans) and the literal, walking through Charlottesville waving swastikas, shooting up black churches and Pittsburgh synagogues, MAGA-hat wearing ethnofascists (about 80% of the GOP voting base).
So... I agree that if the shoe was on the other foot, the Republican party would not step in to help the situation. However, I also wonder if we aren't already at the point where Trump and the GOP are toast regardless. Has enough already happened that they have no chance in November?
It's a very fine line between the Republicans getting blamed and accidentally destroying the economy by holding out on another bailout. I don't know, I'm not an expert. But what I'm getting at is, if this situation is already bad enough to finish off Trump and the Republican Senate, then there's zero point in letting it get any worse.
Further, I imagine, if it gets bad enough, that will start to reduce the chances there even is an election. I'm worried about a collapse where the election gets "postponed." The current postponements of primaries WILL help the GOP if it gives Russian asset Bernie an excuse to stay in the race until July or August.
The Dems and Biden need to walk a very, very fine line here, and I think there's a little more nuance, and several important factors you're not considering in this piece... They need to get rid of Bernie and get rid of Trump while maintaining a country and functioning system to elect them.
There's a lot of nuance, certainly. Fodder for tomorrow!
Do you think everything that has happened so far with Coronavirus is enough to take down Trump? Keep in mind that this is only going to get worse for a while.
Trump is extremely vulnerable on this because he got rid of the White House office that was there to counter pandemics and his budgets have slashed public health funding. The Dems can just HAMMER him on that over and over.
I deeply understand that Trump HAS TO GO, and I think the severity of the current situation is largely his fault, but how far do we, as a country, have to fall until we've fallen too far and Trump becomes the least of our problems? I'm sure it's a pretty fine line.
"how far do we, as a country, have to fall until we've fallen too far"
Dude, that happened in 1875 when white America decided Reconstruction was too much like hard work, and let the Confederacy make a Hydra-style comeback as the Lost Cause.
A country which only got to the point of admitting that black folks were real people inside of my lifetime (I'm 43) /has already/ fallen too far.
Unfortunately, we need more suffering to have them really toasted. Too many now believe a conspiracy theory of Democrats unleashing the coronavirus panic to bring down the economy and Trump. And there fore they will support him. They need more pain and suffering (and the rest of us with them) to finally realize that he is a con man and entire GOP evil.
My husband was just reading me some comments on our local Nextdoor - fortunately most of the people were rational and science based, but there was someone pushing the theory that it Coronavirus has spread in China and Italy because of 5g networks. Her "evidence"? A video her friend made. Lord, give me strength to bear the stupidity.
Yes, it is completely correct that you are not an expert.
We can tell this in several ways, including that you seem to think Sanders is a 'Russian Asset' - coming to that conclusion involves a) conflating democratic socialism with communism AND b) somehow believing that Putin's Russia is either of those things.
There's a reason Putin put his spies to work to help elect Trump, and why his people were cosying up to the religious right and the NRA - Russia is a far-right authoritarian state, exactly like the kind of thing the GOP want America to be.
Sanders isn't even close to being a fan of Putin's Russia. Nor is he even close to being a communist - in 34 out of 36 OECD nations, Sanders would be a moderate centre-right politician, his policies are that far from real democratic socialism.
America does not have a left at all - it has moderate centre-right social democrats (Bernie, etc.) through moderate centre-right conservatives (Biden etc.) and then a big gap, and then the far right ('moderate' Republicans'), the lunatic right ('mainstream' Republicans) and the literal, walking through Charlottesville waving swastikas, shooting up black churches and Pittsburgh synagogues, MAGA-hat wearing ethnofascists (about 80% of the GOP voting base).