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Until recently I was spending most of my bulletin board time at The Cardboard, but the discussion there has become abusive. Unless you confess and aver that you will never vote for Trump, your opinions will get short shrift and you will be in for a massive amount of abuse. I remember Barbara Walters interviewing Gordon Liddy a few years after Nixon’s resignation. She asked Liddy if he would ever not vote for Nixon in hypothetical election. I think Walters thought that might be a “gotcha” moment, but Liddy instantly responded, “against whom?”.
Trump makes himself a pretty big target. Constantly. No question in my mind that he can be pretty easy to dislike. And Biden is less overtly offensive. OK. Fine. When did election to the Presidency of the United States necessitate that a person be a great guy? It is sad that the electorate has been steadily degraded to the point that a fairly large swath of the voters think that this is a giant game of American Idol or the NFL playoffs. That kind of shallowness is destroying our nation.
Besides, the Republicans tried John McCain and Mitt Romney. McCain was supposed to be a placator or a capitulator. He got steamrolled. Romney was supposed to be an intellect and a genius about all things mercantile. He was eviscerated. Donald Trump was unlike those two. Totally. In spades. And it worked. He won.
I’m pretty sure it is misguided to just look at the similarities with 2016 and assume that it will work out the same way. It always at least has a wrinkle. No, it won’t be a duplicate, I suppose. But the focus of the Democrats’ campaign probably ought to be Trump’s personality. Their only hope is to have voters focus on their emotions – not their powers of reason.
I did a nice little write-up to identify myself to you all, but stupidly forgot to save it and then lost it during the process of posting it. Your losses, I guess. I’m sure as hell not doing it again.
I grew up in Iowa, thus the clever, self-deprecatory screen name. I figured I may as well lean into the BS. You know, several times during my undergraduate years I had people tell me that they were familiar with Iowa. And each time they would identify it as the capital of Minnesota.
I will try again to post this with that graph depicting my “Political Compass”. The other riveting stories will have to wait to be revealed over the course of future posts, I suppose. So you have that to look forward to – and that’s nice.
