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Now for a dose of reality. Megan nails it. And the less you esteem Trump & Trumpers, the more compelling her points are.
At some point, the obvious wisdom of Trump/Desantis will start to settle in.
The Trump political clown show needs to die. On both sides. DeSantis isn't hitching his wagon to that.
Agreed
Trump is politically self destructive.
Not with his fanatically loyal base of course …..but with independents , women and younger voters .
DeSantis has seen how Trump treated Pence and cabinet members . No way in the world would he accept the same treatment.
Trump needs to disappear and make room for someone who can win in 2024 .
I agree. Trump is being treated very un-American in the witch hunt to find some way to prosecute him for something. What the Dems are doing with the Jan 6th Commission and DOJ is right out of McCarthyism.
That said, Trump is political poison. He needs to have a PAC or a Lobby Group, but NOT run for public office. He is a disaster as an elected official. I like his policies, but his personality is too caustic to be able to Govern effectively.
I do believe the Dems made him this way, he was not like this in 2016 and seemed to honestly think he was going to be able to cut deals, thereby making DC work. But he went from a counter-puncher to Mike Tyson just uncontrollable.
Reality - People stormed the Capitol to bring down democracy
Oh boy...
What were the guys storming the Capitol trying to do?
Aside from the fact you'd have to storm hundreds of capitals to actually bring down democracy, and it would require more than a storming,
Not at all.
Democracy is bigger than a single election not to mention the United States. Good grief you people are eaten up with irrational fear and perspective.
No, you're just making a rather odd leap. They were there to bring down a democracy, not democracy as a concept. I am amused, but not comforted, by the assurance that they only meant to overturn an election and impose martial law just this one time. I don't know how many times something like that has to happen before Republicans see it as a threat.
Threats have to be realistic, and not made up in the minds of idiots, both sides.
EDIT: And the Presidential elector certification is about as non-democratic of a democratic thing as you could find. Which makes this "overthrowing democracy" claim even more absurd.
"Please consider today who had a hand in defeating President Trump's efforts to overturn the election, Vice President Pence, Bill Barr, Jeff Rosen, and others at the Department of Justice, State Republican officials, White House staff who blocked proposals to mobilize the military to seize voting machines and run new elections, our Capitol Police, aided by the Metropolitan Police, other federal law enforcement, and our National Guard, who arrived later in the afternoon.
"All of these people had a hand in stopping Donald Trump. This leads us to a key question. Why would Americans assume that our Constitution and our institutions and our republic are invulnerable to another attack? Why would we assume that those institutions will not falter next time? A key lesson of this investigation is this."
Liz Cheney