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....aaaaaand guys here love him
Epiphany- many here on MESO and in the US at large share this puke kids mindset. They see his reasoning. They applaud his courage and resolve. They are quick to twist shit and blame the individual not the system.
Why he’s a goddam American patriot
Why he’s a goddam American patriot
What an embarrassment this guy is
The center-right political coalition in America — the Republican Party as it stands today — can be described as holding two overarching goals: First, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-trumps-historic-deregulation-benefitting-americans/ and https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Corporate%20Tax%20Reform%20and%20Growth%20Final.pdf — each clearly stated on the White House website — and second, but packing a bigger punch, the preservation of the status quo by stemming the erosion of the privileged status of white Christian America.
For those who want confirmation of Republican accomplishments along economic lines, the Brookings Institution has provided a helpful deregulatory tracker. And The Times has published a thorough examination of Trump’s achievements in cutting taxes for the rich — not only the “big, beautiful” tax bill of 2017, but also this year’s “Tax-Break Bonanza Inside the Economic Rescue Package.”
The most important issue driving Trump’s ascendance, however, has not been the economy but race.
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Firm allegiance to the conservative agenda has become crucial to the ability of Trump and the Republican Party to sustain the loyalty of an overwhelmingly white coalition that experiences itself as besieged and under the threat of losing power. The time when a major political party could articulate a nakedly racist agenda is long past, although Trump comes as close as possible.
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Structurally, the Democratic Party has become the ideal adversary for a Republican Party attempting to define political competition as a contest between “us the people” against “them, the others” — the enemy. The short- and medium-term prognosis for productive political competition is not good.
Joshua Greene, the Harvard psychologist, closed his email with an addendum: “P.S. I think that Biden will probably win and will probably be the next president. But the fact that I can’t say more than ‘probably’ is terrifying to me. I fear that we are witnessing the end of American democracy.”
Nothing better symbolized the differences between the Republican and Democratic conventions than the speeches delivered by a teenager at each gathering.
Speaking last week, 13-year-old Brayden Harrington offered a moving account of his struggles with a stutter and how Joe Biden, who overcame a stutter of his own, tried to help him at a campaign stop in New Hampshire. This, we learned, is typical of Biden — a man who has endured more than his fair share of suffering and has reached out to comfort those with problems of their own.
What a different message was conveyed this week by 18-year-old Nicholas Sandmann at the Republican convention. Sandmann is sore that he was portrayed by some news organizations as the aggressor in a 2019 confrontation with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. He has become a celebrity by embracing his own victimhood — and he was eager to make the most powerful man on the planet out to be a victim, too. “I know you’ll agree with me when we say that no one in this country has been a victim of unfair media coverage more than President Donald Trump,” Sandmann said.
The Republican convention lineup was larded with Trump’s relatives — it sometimes felt more like a family reunion than a political gathering — but they were no more successful than Sandmann in offering any humanizing anecdotes about the president. Is there a single moment of Trump’s life when he has shown the kind of empathy and understanding that Biden routinely displays?
Even Trump’s offspring delivered rote praise of the Great Leader (“He is a fighter and will never stop fighting for America,” said daughter-in-law Lara Trump) without offering a single anecdote to make him remotely lovable or even likable. There was, in short, not a word said to dispel the damning impression of Trump’s own sister, who said in a secretly recorded conversation that the president is a serial liar with no interest in helping people and “no principles.”
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