Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024
What his victory in America’s election would mean
The Economist
November 18, 2023.
I'm starting this a bit earlier than normal (I still had room to post on the last one), but the dawning realization that not only that it's possible that Trump might win, but rather that he will, is finally sinking in. The Economist got to this point after I did.
Democratic pundits like Robert Reich and Donna Brazile are going to keep on saying that we shouldn't worry, things will be fine. Baloney, worry, things aren't going to be fine. Joe Biden is not going to suddenly pull the rabbit out of the hat.
Nor are voters going to suddenly realize that the economy is doing well and love Biden. This vote isn't about the economy. Indeed, the fact that the economy is doing well in part provides the luxury to focus on social issues in a time of extraordinarily extreme stress.
Democrats need to move to the right, and right now. If they don't, they're going to hand this election to Trump, and we'll have four years like we've never seen before. Part of that means dumping an 80-year-old candidate that people don't like, and his highly annoying left wing running mate. And right now.
From our last edition:
Overall in the Republican race right now, the following are the serious candidates in terms of still (sort of) being contenders against Trump.
Trump.
Doug Burgum
Chris Christie
Ron DeSantis
Nikki Haley
Asa Hutchinson
Of the above, Hutchinson should drop out, as his campaign is gaining no traction and is essentially the same as Christie's. Burgum should drop out as well as his campiagn has generated little interest, mostly due to his own waffling on Trump.
GOP candidates still around that nobody is paying any attention to are:
Scott Alan Ayers
Ryan Binkley
Robert S. Carney
John Anthony Castro
Peter Jedick
Perry Johnson
Perry Johnson
Donald Kjornes
Mary Maxwell
Glenn McPeters
Glenn J. McPeters
Scott Peterson Merrell
Darius L. Mitchell
Vivek Ramaswamy
Sam Sloan
David Stuckenberg
Rachel Swift
Of these, only Ramaswamy is newsworthy, but most due to his being noisy and somewhat of a gadfly. So, in terms of real candidates, what the GOP actually has is:
Trump.
Doug Burgum
Chris Christie
Ron DeSantis
Nikki Haley
Asa Hutchinson
Vivek Ramaswamy
On the Democratic side, there are actually just about as many people running, but really only Biden and Dean Phillips are serious candidates. . . so far.
Some really excellent commentary on this can be found, interestingly enough on Twitter, on this feed:
November 20, 2023
In something really scary, in context, given his recent tweets, former President Trump, the GOP front-runner was filmed serving an early Thanksgiving dinner to uniformed personnel reported to be Texas National Guardsmen and "border patrol agents" who are more likely Texas law enforcement officers. Many of them stopped to have their picture taken with the former President, who now has one judge on record with an opinion that he has been an insurrectionist.
The U.S. military, although less so the National Guard, has traditionally been non-political. Indeed, up until World War Two military officers regarded it as a personal duty not to vote.
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