Since then, the entire Republican Party establishment has been trying to decide what to do with their magnificent moron. Some, unable to stomach Trump’s unpredictability, are waiting in the wings for better days. But many angle for proximity to him, hoping to steer and coax the president. They are routinely ignored and rebuffed, and frequently banished when Trump tires of them. But Trump can’t devote his scarce mental energy to serious consideration of every decision that crosses his desk, and his rotating cast of advisers retains some influence.
These advisers have hatched a plan for Trump in 2020. According to the Daily Beast, they want him to go hard against “socialists and communists,” to red-bait his way to reelection. He has obliged in public on several occasions, saying, , that any vote for a Democrat is “a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American dream,” and promising in his 2019 State of the Union address that “America will never be a socialist country.”
But privately, Trump is not so sure this will work. In closed-door meetings, he has expressed concerns that people might actually like the idea of eliminating college tuition, canceling student and medical debt, and dispensing with health insurance co-pays, premiums, and deductibles. If that’s what socialism stands for today, then maybe it’s wise to lay off and scaremonger about immigrants or Iran instead.
“A lot of people think it’ll be easy to beat,” he’s reported to have said about socialism at a private event recently. “The truth is, it might not be so easy.” Trump has a crystal ball, and, peering into it, he sees that socialism holds a certain appeal in a nation wracked by inequality and disenchanted with business as usual — the same populist mood that he masterfully manipulated in his own presidential bid.
Trump is right. According to a Harris poll conducted in March, half of millennials and Generation Z respondents said they would “prefer living in a socialist country” to a capitalist one. These age groups will make up 37 percent of the electorate in 2020. And even 27 percent of people over the age of sixty-five have a positive view of the word “socialism.” Capitalism is losing its luster, and disparaging its opposite doesn’t hold the same promise it once did.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/d...ntial-election
Cowboys for Trump. I wonder if they have a chapter called "Cowgirls for Trump"?
carolina73 (05-28-2020)
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exotix (05-28-2020)
It's not excluded that what we will see when election night is over, is the start of a civil war (or if not a full-blown one that would actually meet the definition of one, we may see smaller but widespread episodes of violence with lives lost). The way we are going with our divisiveness, nothing would surprise me. Thinks that I previously thought would only happen in Banana Republics, are no longer excluded, here.
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Please take COVID-19 seriously; don't panic but don't deny it; practice social distancing (stay 6ft from people); wear a mask, wash your hands a lot, don't touch your face, don't gather with too many people, so that you help us contain it.
Law and Order.
Anyone of the Democrats hear want to condemn the protestors burning and looting in Minneapolis with me?
Marshall Dillon would round up those rascals and we would have a ?