If we were talking about what a pot of cracks the current Republican party is running, this election would be a landslide. Instead, we’re stuck debating if Biden will be an effective 85 year old commander in chief.
If Biden had gracefully bowed out two years ago, AS HIS 2020 CAMPAIGN HAD SIGNALED HE WOULD DO, this election would be so much easier and simpler. Kari Lake, post-Jan 6th convicted Trump, Mark Robinson. A whole bunch of loons.
The problem is, he isn't fit. He's just less unfit. People are frustrated that instead of a normal, reasonable alternative, they have to pick the less ridiculous of two ridiculous options.
I think part of the problem is that democrats/liberals expect more from their candidates. Republicans just care about winning and destroying the other party.
Well, yes, but I meant it much more broadly - the election threads are full of hot takes from people all over, who all point out, quite correctly, that whatever happens in the election will also end up affecting them.
It’s just an unfortunate circumstance that they don’t have any first hand experience of the process, with it’s many (and sometimes bizarre) quirks, so sometimes the hot takes are not as well informed as they otherwise would be.
I really hate how comments like this frame it. It's a blatant strawman fallacy.
No shit we all know Trump is bad. Hello? He's been saying this shit and doing TERRIBLE things for over 8 years now.
The PROBLEM is that for whatever reason, none of this shit is sticking, even when the media covers things like January 6th hearings, his criminal indictments, his impeachments, etc...
So while Biden's numbers continue to decline and Trump widens his lead, are you REALLY going to sit there and say, "hey guys don't worry, just one more scandal and this time we got him!"?
So naturally since the cult isn't changing, we must change ourselves to improve our odds.
Biden being unfit and the right being insane are not mutually exclusive. It's akin to choosing the lesser of two evils, and recognizing that they're both evil. Meanwhile people are going around online denying that the lesser of two "evils" is evil because it's not the greater evil.