Will Trump go to his funeral?
Hard to predict because, on one hand, Cain was a Trump supporter and went to his Tulsa rally but, on the other hand, Cain had black skin.
And Trump really doesnât give a shit about anyone but himself.
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âHerman Cain was a great man, but I didnât know him at all.â
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Sorry CainâŚ
The Dems are welcoming John Kasich and the Lincoln Project, âmoving to the centerâ (known as the far right in any other country) yet again. Bidenâs Democratic party looks a lot like the Republican party, minus the religious fanatics and racists. There are still far too many endless war backers and social program gutters in the Democratic party (although one less since Elliot Engel lost his primary).
We absolutely can do better.
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Bidenâs platform is by far the most progressive platform ever for a Democratic candidate for President.
By. Far.
STFU and vote. This kind of shit elected Trump in 2016.
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No, itâs not. Misogyny and foreign interference and last minute Comey and a series of regrettable decisions on the part of the Clinton campaign is what elected Trump. Itâs perfectly OK for those of us who are going to vote for Biden to discuss what can be done to move the party to the left on important issues.
I totally agreeâŚafter the fucking election. Sniping at Biden and his
ideas /platform will do nothing but encourage doctrine-first voters to stay home. That is what pouting Sanders and his supporters did to Clinton, and it had a lot to do with her defeat. Defeating Trump should be the motivation for every 2020 voter not part of his base, not pedantic criticism of him or of his failure to give the left 100% of what it wants.
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If you want to change things, youâll only be able to do so if you take over the presidency and the Senate. Managing this election must be the highest priority right now.
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Defeating Trump is obviously Job #1. But Job #1A is winning a majority in the Senate.
Obamaâs mainstreaming of the ending of the filibuster yesterday is hugely important; he described it as a âJim Crow relicâ. Many Democrats have been a little gun-shy of signing on to this, but itâs the only way to fix anything assuming that Jobs #1 and #1A are successfully executed. Obamaâs full-throated endorsement in a very public forum will give them cover to jump on board.
Obama was stonewalled by Senate Republicans for the last 6 of his 8 years in office; which is why what little he was able to achieve thereafter was by executive order, which is no way to govern and is easily torn up by any subsequent president. Only by passing actual legislation will any lasting benefit be gained by winning the White House. That requires winning the Senate and nuking the filibuster from orbit.
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I include these people in the misogyny category. Some Bernie supporters in 2016 were progressives whose primary concerns included universal health care and economic inequality. These same people were annoyed with Clinton for some or many of her questionable policy positions both in the past and at that time.
Other Bernie supporters saw Bernie as a chance to be disruptive and to punish Clinton. Policy concerns are not paramount within this group.
The former group largely voted for Clinton in the general election; the latter group largely did not.
It is wholly appropriate to fashion a party platform at this moment. And itâs obviously necessary to be nimble in terms of policy given the pandemic and the costs to citizens and to the economy, so these policy positions are in a constant state of evolution. Those of us who comprise the most progressive wing of the party should not hesitate to participate in policy discussions and actively attempt to shape policy. Itâs not my fault Joe Rogan is a fucking idiot.
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Biden will likely appoint similar nuclear non-proliferation and Asia-pivot types that Obama did, which will be much better than Trump. Heâll almost certainly stop playing games with the START treaty and wonât make foreign policy by Twitter. Those Bush-era grifters will float around looking for jobs, but a different group will be in charge (though they may not as progressive or whatever as you might like).
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Nobody is arguing that Biden wouldnât be an exponential improvement over what we have now. Itâs just that the country urgently needs to do much more beyond addressing the immediate, Trump induced crises, and there is reason to doubt that Biden is the ideal vehicle for the structural change many of us consider necessary.
It doesnât seem like there are all that many My favorite progressive candidate didnât win the nomination so Iâm going to sit this out types. Iâm sure there are some out there, but they are probably far outnumbered by the I will vote for Biden but would not have voted for your favorite progressive candidate sorts.
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Oh, I will. But letâs not pretend that the Democratic party didnât just overwhelmingly reject Medicare for All for its platform, or knuckle under yet again to another round of huge military spending.
Getting rid of Trump is priority one, of course. But you and everyone else need to watch very carefully about what the Democratic party is up to, and make sure we get something more substantive for our votes than Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer dressing up like Wakandans.
I think (or at least hope) that theyâll recognize that they got put back in power by an awakened electorate who wonât hesitate to replace them if theyâre not paying attention.
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To me, to worry about all that means you need control of the House and Senate, not just Biden.
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Biden has adopted a much more aggressive climate plan and has come to an agreement on a Medicare Buy-In with Sanders that goes much further than Bidenâs Obamacare+ proposal.
He has shown already that he can âevolveâ his positions. It suggests also that he could be moved by Congress.
You donât have a 50 year career in politics if you canât tell which way the wind is blowing.
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