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I acknowledge that the Dems MUST change. That's super true.
But based on real historical information about trump, plus his clear intentions for this term, I would have elected an incontinent Chihuahua over trump. At least the Chihuahua would have just shit on the floor of the oval office rather than trashing minority/immigrant rights, climate/science progress, and health research and vaccine implementation all in the first week.
So if there's criticism of dems, which is valid, there's a seeming lack of acknowledgement of the risks trump poses, which are in great excess to anything DEM status quo
True. People keep saying there was nothing different from the Harris campaign that made her different from Biden, but when you compare the status quo, even the version of the status quo that Biden's biggest critics were inventing, it would have still been preferable to re-electing the guy who tried to literally steal the election last time. We could have only been so lucky to have the status quo.
We never needed to discuss Biden accidentally declaring the entire country female.
Or raping people.
Or being a felon.
The status quo is going to look so desirable. Even just by the end of this year. We'll be begging for it. Just like we were at the end of 2020. But Americans have the memory span of hamsters. So here we are.
Dems have ALWAYS been held to a higher standard. They have to be flawless, while Republicans literally get to be lawless.
It's absurd and is a damning condemnation of the intelligence of the average American. If Dems don't do exactly as we want with halos over their heads, we just throw our hands up in the air and go with our direct abusers instead. It's pathetic. It's so childish.
Completely agree.
It's like the al franken thing. What he did in that joking photo was 100% wrong. But was it requiring he be expelled? Further, an active, effective blue legislator was lost for something conservatives would never have done. In some cases that's a damn good thing.
So, on the one hand, punishment and criticism was required, but the standard is so sky high that dems just lose to republicans.
Please be clear, I'm not condoning his behavior or suggesting nothing should have happened, but I think the action shouldn't have been running him out of town without question.
The inescapable conclusion is that, despite their rhetoric, the Democratic Party did not actually see Trump as a risk to the status quo -- at least not the status quo they actually care about (their donors' plutocratic gravy train), as opposed to the status quo they claim to care about (egalitarianism/civil rights).
In other words, "the Dems MUST change" is a huge understatement. It also has zero chance of happening -- other than doubling down on the "we must court the mythological Enlightened Centrist and move right" change for the worse -- under the current party leadership.