P.S. It’s official: The Republican Party has gone full Trumptard with a ridiculous request that would delay certification of Michigan’s vote by the legislature for at least two weeks while an audit is conducted to examine whether there was election fraud that would have unfairly tilted the vote there for Biden, who leads by over 140,000 votes with less than 6000 remaining to counted as of this evening.
This is the poor understanding you continue to have about the way the public view progressives.
The hard left has been claiming that the progressives did well in the 2020 House elections, and the Democratic moderates did poorly, thus this is proof positive that people are rejecting moderates and identifying with progressives.
This is very flawed thinking. The problem with this theory is that Congressional elections are by district, and thus the base of voters varies extremely widely. The progressive has the edge in AOC's district. In purple districts -- and even some working-class blue districts -- the progressive turns people off. There aren't enough progressive districts out there to give a substantial number of victories to progressive candidates. In short, if the Dems ran all progressive House candidates in a Congressional race, they would get slaughtered.
So why did the moderates lose? Because they were dragged down by the progressives. It's all the same party, so even if the Democratic candidate is moderate and doesn't overtly support extreme left positions, voters will see "Democrat" and think, "Oh, that's the party which wants to defund the police, eliminate cash bail, cancel all college debt at taxpayer expense, allow 3-year-olds to transition, kill my health insurance, and raise everyone's taxes to pay for all this shit. No thanks!"
Democrats are finding that it is hard to run as a "moderate" these days, when the party branding is so loud and so left.
I actually hope that Democrats like you continue to think that the extreme progressive agenda is the way to go, and that the Democratic Party will do better in 2022 if they just continue going left.
Truthfully, there's a big opportunity right now for Democrats to crush the GOP in the 2020s if they just drop the extreme bullshit, and take on a more "we care about the average voter, fuck the elitists" attitude which propelled Trump to initial popularity. Instead, Democrats are telling white swing voters that they're all racists, and they're telling minorities that they must consider themselves victims, plus everyone needs to get on board with the extreme trans agenda and be okay with abortion at 9 months.
I think you just don't understand the way swing voters think. You spent a long time in academia, and I think it messed up your perception of the real world.
The sadly funny thing about Trump is he woulda CRUISED to re-election if he had chosen to be remotely serious about handling covid.
Not cruised. Maybe it would have been enough to squeak by.
The problem is that regardless of the "seriousness" shown, we would have had a relatively similar result. There wasn't a mistake he made which resulted in any realistic difference in number of deaths.
I know that the TDS left likes to say he caused a ton of death, but if you drop the bias and look at the reality, he actually didn't.
So "serious" Trump still presiding over 225,000 deaths by election day, I think it's mostly the same result. "Trump screwed it up, it's his fault, blah blah blah", and it's game over. Note that the media is incredibly hostile to him, and would have found a way to blame him no matter what.
I will say that since the election was fairly close, perhaps Trump with better messaging during COVID would have impressed enough people to where, even with the death, he could have made up those votes he lost in those close states, and taken the election.
The "cruising to victory" would have occurred if there was no COVID at all. That's how it was looking in January.
Just read the dismissal of Rudy's hail mary Pennsylvania lawsuit. Dismissal was ordered tonight. The judge was hilarious. Totally called out their bullshit "legal arguments". Comically bad legal arguments by team trump.
The best part was there is a reasonably passable argument to be made in court, but Trump's attorneys were too stupid to see it.
Making up numbers is exactly the point.
There have been zero credible studies about how many COVID deaths were caused by people choosing not to wear masks because Trump influenced them not to. (This is different, by the way, from people choosing ON THEIR OWN not to wear masks, regardless of what Trump said.)
I bet that would account for very few deaths. Either way, the hysterical left is just guessing at this.
At the same time, they aren't accounting for the very logical fact that the media's obsession with masking has caused the opposite problem -- the illusion of security of masking. Many believe that masking protects them, and thus put less effort into staying home and social distancing.
While this is anecdotal, a guy called into radio last night and talked about his friend's workplace, where they were actually asking COVID-positive people without symptoms to come in.
"Just put on a mask and it will be fine", these people were told.
There really is a widespread belief that mask wearing = safety.
It's very possible that more people have been killed by the belief that masking keeps them safe than people killed by non-masking due to Trump's reticence to push masking.
Either way, there's no studies on any of this, nor can anyone on the left explain why anti-masking Norway was never hit hard. It's a lot of guessing and speculation to blame it all on the Big Orange Bad Man.
YOU'RE JUST MAKING UP NUMBERS TODD
Trump said it's was all a Democratic hoax and it's nothing more than a simple flu
No need to add to this or dispute it.
He downplayed it in March and continued to do so the entire time. Lot's of people died because of Trump and that's a fact
You can argue till you're blue in the face but these simple facts that I laid out are all anyone needs to know
Imagine arguing that trump couldn't have done more...
there's tons of clips of MSM, even your beloved CNN telling everyone not to worry, that this is just a flu, everything will be fine, go down to Chinatown, get on the subway, go to events.
Why do you not hold democrats responsible for this?
why is it only Trump that you rag on?
oh right, cause CNN told you to.
I didn't say Trump couldn't have done more. I'm saying that Democrats wouldn't have done any better, and that Trump didn't cause a major difference in death rates.
Remember, Democrats spent most of February whining about xenophobia. That was their early contribution to this whole thing.
It's pure delusion to believe that Democrats were trying to jump and proactively handle this thing, while Trump was thwarting them and calling it a hoax.
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