“The quality of our leaders is deteriorating, and we're so used to it that it's not alarming to us anymore." - Peggy Noonan, 'Bad Leadership Is A National Security Threat', WSJ, 4/20
"One of the most consequential facets of the
2024 election is how Americans have warmed to Trump’s first term. Call it “amnesia” or anything else, but it’s a significant factor.
To the extent people continue to remember the grass being greener, that’s
likely to weigh significantly on who wins in November.”- Aaron Blake, WP, ‘Trump’s Increasingly Charged Criminal
Trial'
"Trump has millions of ignorant fools who will do anything for him. I hope he makes a big batch of Jim Jones Kool Aid and they drink it all."- Commenter on Washington Post yesterday
The recent news (NY Times, April 11, 'More Voters Join Republican Party, Closing Gap With Democrats') that more voters have "shifted to the Republican Party" had me gobsmacked with astonishment, while Janice just said: "I told you so!" Meaning that her interpretation of most American voters as "a pack of idiots" still holds. But you can't make this shit up, especially as it comes right out of the detail-oriented Pew Research Center.
As the piece noted:
"In the runup to the 2020 election more voters identified as Democrats than Republicans. But four years into Joe Biden's presidency that gap has shrunk as more voters have shifted to Republicans."
What was even more disturbing, at least to me not to Janice, is that more "independents" have actually revealed themselves as Reepo partisans. Thus, as Pew points out, this sorry lot "tend to behave like partisans even if they eschew the label." This stealth misidentification could also explain why recent polls of independents disclose only 1 in 3 believe Trump is actually guilty in the current "hush money" trial - which is really an election interference trial. See e.g.
by Robert Reich | April 12, 2024 - 6:38am | permalink
According to Carroll Doherty, director of political research at Pew:
"The Democratic and Republican parties have always been very different demographically, but now they are more different than ever."
The reason? According to the piece and the Pew Research findings:
The Reepo voter surge is mainly due to: "significant gains among voters without a college degree, rural voters and white evangelical voters."
The first is easily explained given those voters likely lack critical thinking and basic reasoning skills and hence are more likely to tune into FOX where they get thoroughly brainwashed. So logically they will be inclined to join a party replete with traitors (insurrectionists), liars (like Trump) and obstructionist clowns - like the current GOP House blocking aid to Ukraine, and conducting a clown show sham "impeachment" of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Majorkas. (which the Dem Senate properly quashed.)
The rural voters are also understandable, given their likely low level of reading and gullibility (look at the guy above who believes a Trump "dictatorship" is needed). Only a semi-educated rube would believe such bull pocky as the constitution is trumped by a dictatorship, or that Trump is "anointed by God" e.g.
Rural WI Voters Are Convinced Trump Is "Anointed"
The white evangelical lot are also easily explainable given they are convinced Trump is a manifestation of "God's plan" never mind he's a traitor and rapist. They believe this orange slimeball represents their best chance to impose a religious autocracy using the vehicle of Christian Nationalism, e.g.
and:
What is less clear - and far more disturbing - is that the Reeps are "making large gains among white women." And presumably suburban white women. Though we ought to note that in the 2016 election a majority (52%) came out to vote Trump even after seeing the “Access Hollywood” tape and the orange fungus bragging about pussy grabbing. But with a national abortion ban looming - if Trump is re-elected -one wonders how happy these white women will be if their fifteen year old daughter gets pregnant (and no abortion is allowed in their red state.)
Pew claims the Republican party of traitors, liars, obstructionists and pregnancy slavers of women now "holds a ten point partisan advantage" over Democrats in the white female demographic. Which means either: a) these white females believe neither they or their daughters will ever get pregnant from a rape, or b) they will find a way to abort the unwanted seed, or c) they are incapable of thinking that far ahead in terms of consequences, e.g. if a Reepo majority takes over House, Senate and presidency.
We will see how it plays out in November, especially after Trump's trysts with Stormy Daniels are exposed during his trial, particularly having sex with her while his wife was caring for their newborn infant Barron. Or maybe these white women don't really care about sexual morals, fidelity or the fact that Reeps are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. (Consult - i.e. Google, research- the background of one Matt Gaetz)
As for those voters - especially rural, and women- who now believe this cult of a party has their interests at heart, they need to think again. Not when Trump vows universal ten percent tariffs on all goods, from all countries across the board. Also, how the hell can they support a butt-joke of a bunch, in the House of Representatives, that stands out for the lowest level of laws passed since the Great Depression (WSJ two days ago). Oh, and that supports Russian aggression in eastern Europe given it refuses to allow any $$ to Ukraine.
They need to think of who and what they are actually voting for, and meanwhile (especially for the women and more intelligent males) try to get rid of the Trump amnesia! More importantly, they need to cease voting for dirtbag criminals and rapist, traitor reprobates whose stain defiles our nation and its constitutional fabric.
See Also:
by Amanda Marcotte | April 20, 2024 - 6:45am | permalink
For someone who frequently proclaims his innocence, Donald Trump sure loves to act like a two-bit gangster. The perpetual defendant should be focused on staying out of prison and running for president as the first of his four criminal trials kicks off. Instead, he is still focused on his lifelong obsession with making money while avoiding honest work. And the latest marks for this elderly grifter are other Republican candidates running in state or local races.
And:
by Robert Reich | May 20, 2024 - 6:17am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Not since Theodore Roosevelt ran against William Howard
Taft in 1912 have voters been able to weigh the records of two men who have
done the job of president.
The mystery is why Americans have more positive views
of Donald J. Trump’s policies than they do of Joe Biden’s.
You and I both know that polls this far before an
election are almost worthless. Even on the eve of an election, they’re mostly
baloney. (Polling generated by HuffPost on Election Day 2016
concluded that Hillary Clinton had a 98 percent chance of beating Trump.)
Nonetheless, I confess that last week’s polls — The New York Times/Siena
poll of seven swing states showing Joe Biden losing to Trump due to the economy, the FT/Michigan Ross survey finding
voters trust Trump more on the economy than Biden (43 percent to 35 percent),
Gallup’s showing that Americans’ confidence in Biden to do the right thing for
the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured for any president since
2001, and a Politico-Morning Consult poll
finding Trump and Biden statistically tied on who did more to boost
infrastructure — gave me pause.
And:
by Thom Hartmann | April 20, 2024 - 6:00am | permalink
Want to die young? Immerse yourself in conservative media and vote Republican. Seriously.
We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking: when conservatives run governments, suicides and homicides go up; when liberals run governments, suicides and homicides go down.
We got the first clue back in 2002, when, in a 100-year longitudinal study published that year in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Australian researchers found that the suicide rate in that country and the UK increased throughout the 20th century whenever a Conservative government (similar to Republicans here in the U.S.) was in power and declined measurably when the liberal Labour Party was in charge.
And:
Why Are So Many Millions Still Mesmerized By A Loser Traitor Like Donald Trump?
And:
by Amanda Marcotte | April 16, 2024 - 7:08am | permalink
As a lifelong lover of the English language, I'm being slowly driven mad by one word that haunts the news coverage these days: "affair." It's the favorite word that journalists and pundits use to describe the interaction between adult film actress Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump, a onetime meeting that led to a series of alleged crimes aimed at covering up what happened between them at a Nevada golf resort in 2006. Journalists like the word "affair" because it manages to be both tawdry and discreet. It invokes a sexual relationship without getting into the unseemly and — considering the alleged butt-and-ketchup stank of the defendant in this case — stomach-turning details.
But the word "affair" is misleading. Yes, an affair is illicit by definition, and quite likely a bad idea. But an affair is also exciting, erotic, possibly even romantic. An affair suggests two people who can't keep their hands off each other, despite knowing it's wrong. None of this comes close to describing the nauseating single encounter that Daniels has described, whether to journalists or in her memoir. She has insisted, repeatedly, that she did not want to have sex with Trump and gave in because it seemed easier than resisting his advances.
And:
by Jaime O’Neill | April 17, 2024 - 6:51am | permalink
And:
by Les Leopold | April 18, 2024 - 5:39am | permalink
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