The current media environment is a mess of anti-Biden/Democratic narratives
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...The current media environment is a mess of anti-Biden/Democratic narratives that the right has laid down for longer than the time Biden has served in the presidency. They didn’t just come up with the notion overnight that Democrats are open borders leftist extremists who answer only to coastal elites. It wasn’t this calendar year when the right decided that Biden was either too old to live another day or a Machiavellian socialist/communist/Marxist/mafia kingpin. They have always been in the mode of selling these ideas, no matter how detached they are from reality. Some of them work, some of them go too far and are immediately dismissed by the public at large, but the right is always selling something.
Democrats wake up from their slumber in February or March of election years, madly in a panic, looking around as if surprised its an election year again. They slowly crank up the creaky electoral machine as if it had been frozen in amber since November of 2022 (it mostly has) and it spends the summer months ratcheting its way back up to full strength (they hope).
Sometimes it works out just fine. Democrats did great in 2020, outperformed expectations in 2022, and crushed it in 2012. But even when things work out fine, they are more of a mess than they need to be.
The official Democratic Party drives its diehard supporters to the edges of madness every cycle because the public is buried under a pile of right-wing excrement amplified by the mainstream media. There are few, if any Democratic/liberal counternarratives because there isn’t the pressing desire to make it happen. They can’t be bothered to deal with that until the last possible moment, because they’re “busy” governing.
Politics is part of the job of governing. It sucks. Life isn’t fair. Oh well. The presidency on down to the most local official is filled to the brim with “politics.” We’re not in an age (if we ever truly were) where the concept of governing can sit high in the clouds of Mount Olympus above us all, separated from the muck.
Leaders owe a debt to the people who put them in their jobs, to do whatever is legally within their power to make life more tolerable and satisfying for the rest of us. That means a wholehearted embrace of politics is not optional, it is a requirement. Win or lose, its something that Democrats need to finally come to terms with.
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Its time to lower the boom on trumpism. Are the Democrats up to it?
I saw some of Haleys supporters swear that they would not vote for Trump.
Several mentioned his increasing confusion about who he is married to and who the current POTUS is
and it seems to be increasing in frequency.
Maybe he will do himself in as he continues his grievance campaign for the next 7 months.
I voted for Haley on Tue and won’t vote for Trump in Nov. She got my first campaign donation that I’ve made. Lately, I seem to back losing candidates. I must be out of synch with the majorities in ether party.
Biden is failing in his two most important tasks to beat Trump. First he hasn’t become popular, he is unpopular, even more so than Trump. Most importantly he is unpopular with independents, moderates and anyone but Trump Repubs.
Second the the DOJ which has moved much to slow on prosecuting Trump for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election. Many here laud the work by the 6 Jan committees, If their work was so good, the handed the case tied up with a ribbon to DOJ.
Their dithering has resulted in this trial occurring after Trump is the nominee which will make it much harder for a judge and jury to convict him. This trial should have begun 18 months ago.
It’s not so much he is unpopular, 80% think he is incompetent and no longer has the mental capacity to perform the job of president.
I think most polls have Biden at a 56% disapproval and 38% approval rating. That’s very low as compared to other Presidents since WWII who won reelection. The exception being Harry Truman.
Biden doesn’t seem to be actively campaigning but is following the lead of other key Dems and his staff. I think they want to limit his interactions with the public and media.
“They didn’t just come up with the notion overnight that Democrats are open borders leftist extremists,,,,,”
nope, they didn’t come up with it at all. Dems showed the entire country they are open border leftist extremists
They've been fighting border security for a decade plus and Biden literally campaigned on inviting illegal aliens to enter the country. he made his bed and now (unsurprisingly for him) acts confused about why's he held responsible for his own actions.
When Biden's handlers initially decided to govern from the far left rather than as the "return to normal" moderate he campaigned on, his chances of losing increased dramatically. His increasing feebleness and his obstinate refusal to do anything about the border have exacerbated his problems to the point he'd actually manage to lose to Trump if the election were today.
He's been so bad Trump is polling better than he ever has before since he started running for PResident in 2015.
Yep...