The editors of the New York Times have, predictably, launched a broadside against President Trump. Here’s a sample:
The editorial board does not lightly indict a duly elected president. During Mr. Trump’s term, we have called out his racism and his xenophobia. We have critiqued his vandalism of the postwar consensus, a system of alliances and relationships around the globe that cost a great many lives to establish and maintain. We have, again and again, deplored his divisive rhetoric and his malicious attacks on fellow Americans. Yet when the Senate refused to convict the president for obvious abuses of power and obstruction, we counseled his political opponents to focus their outrage on defeating him at the ballot box.
Nov. 3 can be a turning point. This is an election about the country’s future, and what path its citizens wish to choose.
Another snippet:
Mr. Trump stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history. In 2016, his bitter account of the nation’s ailments struck a chord with many voters. But the lesson of the last four years is that he cannot solve the nation’s pressing problems because he is the nation’s most pressing problem.
He is a racist demagogue presiding over an increasingly diverse country; an isolationist in an interconnected world; a showman forever boasting about things he has never done, and promising to do things he never will.
He has shown no aptitude for building, but he has managed to do a great deal of damage. He is just the man for knocking things down.
I will refrain from critiquing their portrayal. Suffice it to say that I agree with them that Mr. Trump is a bad person and a bad president but I think he is a response to basic fundamental problems with our politics which replacing him with a political apparatchik will not solve. Neither will nationwide racial or gender sensitivity training.
If Mr. Trump is defeated at the polls, I do not believe it will solve a darned thing. Far from being the beginning of the end it will mark the end of the beginning.
“Suffice it to say that I agree with them that Mr. Trump is a bad person and a bad president but I think he is a response to basic fundamental problems with our politics which replacing him with a political apparatchik will not solve. Neither will nationwide racial or gender sensitivity training.”
I think politics ceased being about solving problems a while ago.
And the sad reality of a binary and unrepresentative partisan system is that we are collectively forced into a choice between an apparatchik or a corrupt narcissist.
The article was about 2016,
but 2012 and 2008 fill the bill as well.
Excuse me, I said the article, I meant Andy’s comment.
‘And the sad reality of a binary and unrepresentative partisan system is that we are collectively forced into a choice between a CORRUPT APPARATCHIK OR A NARCISSIST’
Fixed it for you.
What is the evidence that OMB is corrupt except the shrieking Goebbels-like assertions of politicians and pundits who have been trying to overturn the 2016 election the last four years to protect their own heinies? If there is evidence of corruption, why hasn’t any evidence of it shown up? If there was, don’t you think Congress would have impeached him and convicted him for it and a majority of the electorate applauded them for doing it? I know damn well I would have. Whereas there is video evidence that DeMentia engaged in it, physical evidence such as wire transfers from corrupt Russian politicians and now e.mail evidence (note, the Biden campaign has NOT denied the accuracy or the provenance of the e.mails, at least so far).
You want a partisan political system, adopt the political system of the French Third Republic. Whose governments lasted on average ten months or so and didn’t have the courage or conviction to snuff Mr. H when they had the chance. Now THAT was a partisan system of governing. No thank you.
‘Suffice it to say that I agree with them that Mr. Trump is a bad person and a bad president’
Is he that horrible a man that you’d rather chose someone who is turning out to be one of the most corrupt and venal politicians of our lifetime, in addition to being mentally incompetent? (And I once thought Biden although dumb and narcissistic wasn’t that bad of a politician (note, I said politician, not man)). What President in your lifetime would you call a good one? You have to chose from what choice you are given. A vote for Biden is a vote for Tyrant Xi, the Green New Deal, the continued transferring of our taxpayer dollars to third world tyrants and corruptocrats in the name of world ‘peace’ and climate ‘change’, the further hollowing out of America’s manufacturing, and more mostly peaceful and fiery protests that won’t stay confined to blue cities once Harris is installed. I retched and voted for OMB in 2016, and I’m going to have to do the same in 2020. Any third party vote is a wasted vote.
OK, rant done. Have at it, Steve! I won’t forget how many people you saved.
Eisenhower
For me any vote is a wasted vote. Biden will carry Illinois regardless of who I vote for. And this year there’s quite literally no candidate I can support. I probably won’t cast a vote for president at all. My vote might actually count for something for state and local offices. I’m planning to vote against nearly every incumbent.