It really is telling. Biden stepped down, Harris stepped up, and there was immediately a list of like a dozen totally viable VP picks. There are a lot of people doing good work, connecting with people, etc.
You are totally right about the GOP centering around one person. And he's an old convicted felon who has sucked all the oxygen out of…
It really is telling. Biden stepped down, Harris stepped up, and there was immediately a list of like a dozen totally viable VP picks. There are a lot of people doing good work, connecting with people, etc.
You are totally right about the GOP centering around one person. And he's an old convicted felon who has sucked all the oxygen out of the room. They've got a couple of congressional reps who get media attention, but usually for being batshit crazy or being investigated. The last VP bolted after they tried to kill him. The current VP nominee is a black hole of bad press.
I hope hitching everything they've got to trump is the downfall of the party, and maybe something less horrific will crawl out of the ashes, but I doubt it.
I don't like being cynical, even though I frequently am and my reading & listening material often is. The track record for proto-fascist movements, once they take root in the mainstream, slinking off to irrelevancy without significant beat-downs in either the law or through violence . . is not good.
I'm an out-of-shape middle aged man with a family. I won't be able to man the barricades or do more than vote and encourage others to do so. But until this moment of right-wing insanity passes, I'm keeping my gun.
It really is telling. Biden stepped down, Harris stepped up, and there was immediately a list of like a dozen totally viable VP picks. There are a lot of people doing good work, connecting with people, etc.
You are totally right about the GOP centering around one person. And he's an old convicted felon who has sucked all the oxygen out of the room. They've got a couple of congressional reps who get media attention, but usually for being batshit crazy or being investigated. The last VP bolted after they tried to kill him. The current VP nominee is a black hole of bad press.
I hope hitching everything they've got to trump is the downfall of the party, and maybe something less horrific will crawl out of the ashes, but I doubt it.
I don't like being cynical, even though I frequently am and my reading & listening material often is. The track record for proto-fascist movements, once they take root in the mainstream, slinking off to irrelevancy without significant beat-downs in either the law or through violence . . is not good.
I'm an out-of-shape middle aged man with a family. I won't be able to man the barricades or do more than vote and encourage others to do so. But until this moment of right-wing insanity passes, I'm keeping my gun.