Nah. The Clintons were more an example of the Roosevelts than Biden. Fun fact is the Roosevelts were notoriously hated while they were alive although they are responsible for the world we live in being a much better place. People see change as evil, even if it's good change.
It's sad because Hillary's candidacy tells us what likely would've happened to Eleanor Roosevelt if she had been able to run for president in those days. The Republicans have been trying to "lock her up" since HRC first came on the national stage as First Lady thirty years ago, partly because they couldn't handle a dreaded feminist in the White House and partly for revenge that she helped take down Nixon. The problem though is a person has to commit a crime first before you can lock them up. Running for president while female doesn't count, lol. But, really, that was all the chant was really about--her gender. The first woman who ever ran for president in history (not as one of the major parties) was actually thrown in jail a night before the election on nonsensical charges and then released after the election was over... Casting a female candidate as somehow criminal isn't a new thing--knowing voters will play along because for many, it feels innately "wrong" for a woman to be on a stage where there's never been one--and there's no doubt it was a tactical decision. Just like birtherism against Obama.
To kirabook: Liberals are the Left. The Bernie types are "the fringe" or "the socialists," not "lefties." Biden's win this year tells us Hillary's loss was mostly due to external factors; the opposing side couldn't repeat things like social media misinformation tactics or Comey's letter because everyone remembered their game from four years ago. If her politics was what turned off white men in the Midwest, they wouldn't have overwhelmingly abandoned Bernie for Biden in the primary last January.... I suppose the next woman that attempts to run for president should come from the Midwest. Maybe their misogyny won't be off the charts with "one of their own"--but I doubt it. That's partly why I wish a woman had been the Dem nominee in 2020, since the way people acted with the first woman who ran would be fresh in everyone's minds when they repeat that same behavior with the next woman. It would make it easier to see it for what it really is.
Really, I remember seeing "Best to worst presidents"-lists where Roosevelt ranked in the top 5 even among conservatives.
His "New Deal" is still seen as a prime example on how to establish (or stabilize) an effective economic system even if it still had some flaws.
It were the 1930s/1940s, back then things were even worse than today and I honestly doubt they would even have let Mrs. Roosevelt run as a candidate at all.
Like, I think Trump taking the crown as worst modern president is a no-brainer, but I'm not really sure who deserves the silver 2nd place more, Reagan or Nixon. Both were awful presidents as well.
I don't remember any of the following presidents accomplishing something similarly in terms of scale.
Especially not Ronald Reagan who essentially destroyed much of the benefits the New Deal had brought, much like Thatcher in the UK.
Bernie Sanders is, when you compare it to European standards, more or less a social democrat, which is is a political stance left of the center but not so far left you can't enter a working coalition with centrists or so-called liberal-conservatives, political forces standing
slightly right of the center.
It has zero to do with communism or left-radical positions, big corporations and similar interest groups are just using these buzzwords to slander the proposed policies.
In the USA though the whole view of the scale is somewhat distorted towards the right as what in Europe and other continents are counted as moderate left positions are mistaken as extremist while on the right there are positions considered "acceptable" by large groups in the USA which in other parts of the world are seen as already bordering fascism.
It's jarring to see and hear some Americans praising themselves and their country for allegedly "saving the world from tyranny" in WW II yet some of the policies and measures they propose as desirable were used by the very same tyranny they claim the USA fights against to devastating effects.
Oh yeah. I saw one very vocal gay Trump supporter feel disappointed, but remedied himself by saying that Democrats as well are gonna suffer Biden's agenda, lol.
Now that we look back, God, Trump did nothing. Sure, he didn't start a war, or more so, a direct war (drones say hi), but when you weight all the pros and cons, hell, Trump was one hell of a con.
Tbh I am a little surprised Trump even
has supporters who are gay?
I mean, two of the biggest supporter groups of Trump are religious fanatics and facist-leaning racist right-wingers, both groups known to be very anti-anything not being 100% heterosexual.
Like , how can you support a group who in a very large majority denies you your basic rights because you have the wrong sexual orientation? It's just as baffling as white women voting for Trump despite him being a sexist scumbag.
Speaking of it, did Trump actually got
any law or policy done via the normal law-making process through congress or were it all just executive orders which Biden can now throw into the trash with a single signature?
It is wrong to say Trump got nothing done though, he did manage to make the rich even richer by his tax cuts, got the Supreme Court poisoned by appointing backwards thinking scum to three seats, got the USA isolated and alienated from its allies worldwide and managed to cause more US deaths in one year than the country had in WW II due to mishandling the COVID pandemic.
Biden has a lot to clean up and repair and depending on how the next mid terms go he might not be able to get it all done.
I'd argue they're not just enabling. I didn't mean the person voting for him would actually think it's okay (though obviously it's not a dealbreaker to them either), but to an outside observer it'd seem like they endorse and support the bigotry and think it's acceptable, unless they go out of their way to vocalize their disagreement. We've seen that after his election, with the increase in openly bigotry actions.
People felt emboldened because the guy talking like them got elected. The result is that people like Trump's devoted fanbase will then get the impression that their attitude is accepted and more widely spread than it actually is.
I'm honestly of the believe that a sizable number of the votes for Trump, were more votes against the Democrats and for the Republican party than outright for him. A lot of Trump Supporters won't see it that way though.
Yeah, Biden's job will basically be to clean stuff up and leave a good impression so that the Democrats don't lose the house and senate in the midterms or the Presidency in 4 years. But even that seems like a herculean task.
The issue with the Democratic party is that it's a party that's trying to cover everything from the left to the right and keeping all of those groups happy is impossible.
On the upside it seems Bernie will be making some (hopefully) lasting changes that'll see the minimum wage go up, which should help in the recovery process.
Something that confuses me is that some of the most vocal Republicans like to act as if some of the suggested stuff from the Left won't work and would lead to ruin, while working perfectly well in the rest of the world. Sure the systems aren't perfect, but by adapting it later on they have the advantage of experience they can work with and try and improve upon.
It may also be a certain variant of cherry picking, simply
ignoring the bad things Trump did and said and focusing solely on the alleged good things he did.
Take many of the disgruntled and driven to poverty white workers in the Rust Belt-states due to the negative effects of globalization. Most of those probably do not even hate or dislike gay people or People of Color, they just care more about finally having a livable income, food and the middle-class life back they were robbed of than the (to their ears) constant whining of some minority groups about problems they feel aren't even pressing problems to begin with.
To these more simple people (which isn't even meant negatively), the government, left-leaning folks and also the "big shots" in the great cities on the coasts are setting the wrong priorities and when pointing that out they get condemned and piled upon as racists and whatever buzzwords are en vogue right now, causing frustration and eventually defiance, resulting in a vote for people like Trump even if that doesn't really mean an improvement for themselves.
To hold the House and Senate I fear leaving a good impression alone won't be enough, on one hand because of local politics in every state also being important for which party gets the seats available and on the others because of the weird US election system there will be manipulations again, mainly from Republicans, to favor their own party.
Bernie? Did Biden actually nominate him for a post and I missed that?
Those vocal Republicans are slandering the proposals of the left-leaning representatives do not do so because of any issue working or not working, they do so because the lobbyists behind them don't want any change that could result in them having either less money in their coffers or less influence (or both).
The issue is not if it actually works for the whole populace, it has to work for the radical capitalists who don't want a single decrease in their profits, taking all advantages but giving only back in terms of tokenism.
These politicians then go along with this because they received lots of donations from these people.
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If anything so far no more incidents happening shows that rigorously cracking down on stunts like trying to illegally change the election outcome and the people in charge of some institutions
not balking on Trumps propaganda and bullying-like threats works and can prevent the worst.
I certainly don't like people like Mitch McConnell or Mike Pence especially since they enabled Trumps escapades for so long causing quite some damage, but when it came to the toughest decision and to prevent what was an actual coup attempt they luckily rediscovered their spine and dropped Trump and his core entourage of crooks.
There's no denying though that all of this was a close call and the USA slid past turning autocratic by a narrow margin. Someone more competent and less fixated on his own ego in Trump's position could actually have succeeded.
Those Trump supporters having meltdowns could actually get
more dangerous in the future especially if a new figurehead rises to channel their sentiments.
