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Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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I like this bit in particular.
I don't really blame Biden. He's part of a giant political machine that has been shit at messaging since 1980. Democrats seem to be lead by the sort of try-hard, type-A, rule-follower nerds who were in Student Government in high school. They can't relate to normal folks, and then resort to insults and guilt to get them to do something.
I believe, if I were an oligarch, I would want to craft an opposition party that looked and acted exactly the way Democrats have since Carter. I would push out progressives and independents, and I would back centrists and pragmatists who claim we can't really have anything good unless we first settle for better.
The problem is that, for the first time possibly ever, that is precisely the situation we have. If Trump wins, we're all of us fucked. Biden is the only man who ca possibly beat him.
And yes I can blame Biden for his failings. He's been a politician for longer than I've been alive. He should be better at this.
I guess we can blame Biden. But it could be literally any Democrat in there doing the exact same thing because the political consultants they hire are so ridiculously out of touch.