We are in the retreat-from-Moscow phase of the Trump presidency
we are in the retreat-from-Moscow phase of the Trump presidency
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/opinion/sunday/trump-presidency.html
We are in the Götterdämmerung now, the final phase of the Trump era .
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/weve-now-entered-the-final-phase-of-the-trump-era/612508/
According to Ross Douhat , a "conservative", as opposed to Trumpian , columnist for the New York Times, we are in the twilight of Trump's reign as king Republican honcho, but Douhat also makes it known that he believes there will be a toxic after effect of Trump's ascendancy.
Conservatism needs a way to either claim more space in America's existing elite institutions, or else a path to building new ones. Trump offers a retreat to the fortresses of OANN, TPUSA, QAnon.
Above all, conservatism, now a worldview for old people and contrarians in a country trending leftward, needs a mix of converts and sympathizers to be something other than a rump. Trump did win some converts in 2016, but he has spent four years making far more enemies, and their numbers are growing every day.
What we are seeing right now in America, an accelerated leftward shift, probably won't continue at this pace through 2024. But it's likely to continue in some form so long as Trump is conservatism, and conservatism is Trump -- and four more years of trying to use him as a defensive salient is not a strategy of survival, but defeat.
For a couple years after Trump's election, many "conservatives" were happy enough, although they dishonorably accepted Trump's lies and personal corruption as a tradeoff for right wing judicial appointments and the fun of seeing Trump oafishly insult their favorite punching bags such as Obama and Hillary Clinton.
But in the latter half of Trump's term more and more conservatives in the media have turned on Trump, likely influenced by the sinking feeling that things would never get "better" in terms of Trump's behavior. He is after all a serial liar and malignant narcissist. Now , also, the military has had it with Trump. A number of high ranking former generals and admirals have openly criticized Trump in recent weeks.
Douhat seems to think a thumping is on the horizon
Now we are in the retreat-from-Moscow phase of the Trump presidency, with crises arriving all together -- pandemic, recession, mass protests -- and the president incapable of coping. If the election were held today, the result could easily resemble 2008, the closest thing to a landslide our divided system has recently produced.
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We've heard all this nonsense before. Nothing you say will stop the Trump landslide victory, because the Democrats don't have anyone who is capable of replacing him. Biden/take the chump of your choice, will not win the minds and hearts of the majority of good and decent citizens, who are very worried about the left's view of things.
Trump is not, nor has he ever been a conservative. He's an anti-Dem, just like most of his supporters. In times of crisis, it would be foolish and self defeating to "change horses in midstream" Most American citizens believe in law and order, the presumption of innocence, due process, and support the police to defend us from the criminal element. Tragically, it seems that a large portion of the left wing candidates and supporters seem to eschew these sacred values.
Trump is making sure that the young and minorities will be more likely to vote, and they will vote in overwhelming numbers against him. He appears to have a political death wish, which I ascribe to him knowing deep down inside that he is an unworthy piece of shit.
The young and uneducated usually don't vote unless the get a socialist radical like Bernie....they have no interest in supporting an old and senile moderate chump like Biden.
Considering all the lies the Democrats have told minorities over the years, and all the promises they've failed to keep or have broken, it would reasonable to expect a substantial increase in minority votes for Trump.
You can't be serious. We are already the laughing stock of the entire world because of Trump's moral and intellectual depravity. Why would anyone, regardless of partisanship, wish that for this country for four more years?
And this:
He's an anti-Dem, just like most of his supporters.
...illustrates a desire to keep this country divided. Divide and conquer has been a winning strategy for many of the world's dictators, present and past. That's not ok with me. Is it ok with you?
...and the R in RNC is for racist.
R - Racist
N - Nut
C - Cases
The "left" says everyone is welcome regardless of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or lack thereof. I don't have any problem with conservatives or Republicans being here in America, even the evangelicals are welcome.
The "right" says everyone is welcome... except if you're gay, trans, black, Muslim or atheist, those are the folk they want to reserve their right to discriminate against and they're only allowed in America if they accept their role as second class citizens. As long as the minorities that aren't straight white Christians sit down and shut up, then the supposedly magnanimous "right" will allow them to stay and expect those minorities to be thankful to them for it. They act as if this is "their" country so they have the right to decide who can come here and who can stay.
It's obvious who the party of division is, it's the party that is the least diverse, the least open to new ideas, the group that wants to "conserve" the status quo of the white Christian patriarchy just as they have always done throughout American history. Conservatives have worn many colors and been members of many parties, always shifting allegiances to those who they feel will support their refusal to change most. Their current preferred party is the GOP, but when they fought to conserve slavery they called themselves Southern Democrats or Constitutional Unionists. But the thing that has never changed, that has been passed down from one generation to the next, is their conservatism which by its nature of clinging to discriminatory laws and strictures, has been the most divisive group in our nations history. They started the civil war and after losing then created Jim Crow laws and reintroduced legalized segregation, they fought to keep women from voting, they fought to keep black Americans from voting, they fought to keep interracial couples from marrying, they fought to keep gay couples from marrying. They are the ones dividing America, and while they are welcome in this great and beautiful promise that is America, they do not get to decide who else can share in that dream.
Conservatives can prove they aren't the dividers by treating everyone else they way they expect to be treated. Serve that lgtbq patron in your business, don't fire someone just because you find out they're gay. They could go out of their way to make the Muslims, atheists and Wiccans in their neighborhoods feel welcome instead of treating them like lepers. They could even be pro-education and support a higher education and encourage them to go visit Americas big cities instead of telling them to fear the "coastal elites".
What you are saying is factual and represented literally by Trump's campaign.
I guess you haven't done any research on the DNC and GOP. It's obvious you haven't or you wouldn't have said something that stupid.
Or Dummkoff ....
Tell that to Abe Lincoln .....
As compared to:
Demented
Nut
Cases
So THAT explains the riots; it's "an accelerated leftward shift".
They are the left-tard branch of the liberal party. Or course that tree doesn’t have many branches.
The Trump Presidency will be an asterisk of American history.
The retreat of Trump, by Trump and Trumpism will culminate when his financial underpinnings completely degrade him and those dozens or hundreds of NDA's jam up the courts with every single one demanding their pound of flesh.
And of course let us not forget the thousands of workers, hundreds of small businesses and dozens upon dozens of investors who in the past few decades have been bilked, stolen from, personally slandered and their livelihoods destroyed by this man Trump.
I wonder this too. If Trump loses the upcoming election, in some time before the inauguration will Melania with Barron in tow transfer herself back to Slovenia? After all, there must be a reason Barron has dual citizenship, US and Slovenian. This too, Barron is more fluent in Slovenian than English. Taught by Melania from birth. This fact has been confirmed by many within and out of the WH.
Could it also be that if Trump loses in 2020, the day after the election he is served with divorce papers and the ( Trump kids ) will immediately attack Melania in an attempt to see to it she does not receive her fair share from their marriage agreement?
Inquisitive minds want to know. Does anyone else?
It will be a shit-show for sure. A soon to be "Netflix Original".
More like a daytime soap opera as described above.
"As the loony left turns"
Maybe they can get Susan Lucci to come back to play Melania .......
It is no secret that is never ends well for tyrants...