Taegan Goddard's Political Wire said that Biden's team was "positively giddy" after Trump's appearance at a town hall on CNN. They had good reason to be. According to Goddard's post, one of Biden's team members said, "It was quite efficient. Weeks worth of damning content in one hour."
And that just about sums it up. I thought Trump did an excellent job, if the man is capable of doing anything excellent, letting voters know exactly why he is the single most incompetent, unqualified, unfit individual in the entire nation, including all of the other 300 million plus of us, to serve as President. He is a loser. And during that town hall, he opened up his mouth and let everyone know that he is.
It was grueling to watch. Aside from the hole-shaped mouth that moves strangely when he speaks, his voice, his eyes which, even on camera give away the fact that he is lying through his teeth, his accent, his limited vocabulary in which "disgrace" seems to be the only adjective he knows, it is impossible to take the man seriously. I watched to assure myself that this pitiful excuse for a human being can't win an election and isn't convincing when he opens his mouth. I know in my head that he is out of touch with the majority of the American people, just looking at the majority of his followers is enough to see that. But this was an unprecedented performance worthy of a third rate cable network with fourth rate journalists, and it was very assuring, in the ridiculousness of his performance, that he isn't capable of winning an election legitimately and fairly, when people's votes count.
He's a mirage, a fake, a television personality with no substance, a living creature devoid of morality or conscience, a shell of a human being angry at a world he can't control.
According to Political Wire, Trump missed the expressed will of the voters on every single issue he addressed. A recent YouGov poll shows that 67% of Americans want Ukraine to prevail, but Trump wouldn't commit to that. Quinnipiac conducted a poll in which 80% of Americans--a significantly huge percentage considering American politics these days--think Vladimir Putin is a war criminal, but Trump wants to side with his good friend, Vlad. While one of Trump's goals to get into office is to overturn the rule of law, and create chaos by pardoning people who were arrested and convicted for their disloyalty to this country on January 6th, 68% of Americans say those people should not be pardoned under any circumstance.
He's on the losing side when it comes to Roe v. Wade and abortion, his perspective being opposed by 61% of Americans. And while 58% of Americans are opposed to defaulting on the debt, saying that would be irresponsible, Trump is in favor of doing it. Of course he is. That's why he's rich. He defaulted on his debts, multiple times. That's also why he's a loser.
A Political Mirage
The desperation of the Republican party in the wake of two full terms of Barak Obama, America's first black President whose administration was absolutely nothing like the racially biased predictions in the imagination of Republicans who tried to scare people into thinking that this was some kind of race war "takeover," the fulfillment of ludicrous "replacement" theory, was bottomless. In the field of announced candidates, there was not a single Republican who could make themselves look presidential. The supposed front runner, Jeb Bush, did a pitiful job of campaigning, staking his campaign on his last name, forgetting that his brother had left office with some of the most spectacularly low job approval ratings in decades.
So, in the scramble for prominence, as the favor moved almost weekly from one guy to the next, Trump bided his time. When he came close to the top, according to the Mueller report, the Russian money and influence kicked in and gave him a downhill run to the party's nomination. A full on 70% of Republicans were opposed to him almost right up to the time he became the nominee. But in their tilted system, its the party influence that dictates who gets the nomination.
Even with the full support of the GOP, as its nominee, Trump never achieved the favor of even half of the voters at any time. He was a political mirage, a campaigner so inept, and so prone to make idiotic and nonsensical remarks that he went through three campaign managers and hundreds of staffers while he was running. Some of the best strategists that the GOP had were booted out the door by his angry outbursts at hearing the truth. The one element of American politics that allows weak and inept candidates a real shot at the White House, the electoral college, was the political quirk that got him into the White House. He could not overtake Hillary Clinton's popular vote.
When 2020 came around, his time in office doomed him. A lot of the pundits say that his incompetence in handling the COVID pandemic was the worst political management they'd ever seen. But in all honesty, everything from his foreign policy to his corporate tax cuts undermined his voting support with the independent and moderate voters he needed to win. The bottom line was that he didn't have the personality, the skill, the educational background, experience, knowledge or wisdom to handle the Presidency of the United States. He failed and the voters gleefully pushed him out.
It's easy to see why. There's nothing there. He doesn't understand politics or government. He is a dysfunctional human being, sociopathic in his inability to handle diversity, pathologic in his inability to tell the truth, and is unable to negotiate, in spite of his claims to being an expert "deal maker." He's a moral degenerate, something I hope many of the Evangelical Christians I know who try to convince me that he's changed and he's become one of them saw in that town hall last night. What does it say about the man when he knows what his Evangelical supporters believe, but goes ahead and flaunts his worldliness and immorality and makes excuses for it right in their face? It says more about them, and their lack of conviction or common sense or critical thinking skills, when they continue to support him.
Trump and his ideology are a political mirage.
Setting Democrats up for the 2024 Win
From the beginning of his Presidency, Joe Biden has gone after Trump's brand. Well, why not? He won the Presidency doing that. If not for the quirk of the Electoral College, eight million votes difference in this political climate is quite a significant difference. It will be more than that, if it turns out to be the same race in 2024.
The Democrats really have the issues lined up for them. Trump is at odds with the majority of voters on every major political issue. Depending on what happens with the DOJ and his potential indictments, his running for the Republican nomination could be disrupted. But it's going to cost him a lot of votes if those indictments come out and trials are proceeding during the campaign. The only thing I can see that might hurt Biden is the DOJ not returning indictments against Trump prior to the election. That will cost Democrats voters, quite a few, I think.
We know what's at stake, and I think a clear majority of the American people know too. We cannot afford any more apathy from voters, especially in red states. Too many people don't go, because they don't think their candidates can win in their state or district. Frankly, in most places in this country, the number of unregistered adults is larger than the margins of victory for most candidates. And those people tend to be apathetic because they think their vote won't matter. That doesn't mean that Democrats would win every election if those people just turned out.
I'm just one person. I'm not bragging or patting myself on the back here, either. But let me tell you what I am doing to help make this work. It's not that hard and most people can do this without any problem at all.
First, I have committed a regular, monthly contribution to the Biden-Harris campaign. It's $25 a month, not a fortune by any means. But it is affordable for me and down the stretch, because I live in an area where my state legislators and my congressman and senators don't really need a lot of financial help, I can give my over and above amounts to candidates like Ruben Gallego in Arizona, running for Sinema's senate seat.
Second, I write here and promote this blog as much as possible. I've seen the numbers grow, and I know most of the readers share similar political opinions and perspectives. I also know there are some people who read and occasionally respond with a comment or, more likely an email, asking for more information or clarity, because they are thinking about what they've read. I get a few enraged rants, not surprising, but satisfying because if it is getting under the skin of some Trumpie extremists, they're thinking about it.
Third, I have mapped out every election that will take place in my area between now and the 2024 Presidential election, and I plan to vote in every one of them. If there's an open forum or a place to ask questions, I will ask every candidate if they support Trump and if they believe the 2020 election was stolen. If their answer is yes, then my answer is "no".
Fourth, I will identify places nearby, usually in neighboring states, where I can go help the Democrats running for office. I went to Wisconsin this past fall to volunteer for Mandela Barnes, and after the votes were counted, it was satisfying to note that the county where I went to volunteer saw a 3% increase in Democratic votes over the previous senate election. There were a lot of volunteers, we made a lot of phone calls and had a good time knocking on a lot of doors.
In spite of what I think should be happening, I think Democrats need to be more prepared than ever, get more cash than ever, and launch an unprecedented political assault, against their opponents, in order to ensure the safety of our democracy and to permanently retire this fascist, immoral, inhumane, demented demagogue from American politics permanently.
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