Well, that's that, then. Donald Trump was always going to be the Republican nominee, and now he is almost certainly going to be President again. That was always highly likely against Joe Biden, whose corruption is the only sign that he is still alive.
The Republican primary electorate used to be as hawkish domestically as it was internationally. Yet now, on both counts, it belongs to Trump. We are talking largely about the same individuals who voted three times for George W. Bush, in the 2000 primaries, at the 2000 election, and at the 2004 election. A few have done it four times, since there were a few contested primaries in 2004. Bush himself openly voted for Biden in 2020, and probably voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Why are you happy to be in his company?
A Trump Presidency was no worse than the Biden one, nor would it be. Trump just happens to be in very bad taste. But so is Biden, who is a fascinating throwback. First sworn in as a United States Senator in 1973, he sincerely cannot see any problem with the President's use of the Department of Justice to protect his relatives and to persecute his enemies. To him, that is not even a perk of the job. That is the job.
The DOJ is a federal executive department, so the case of Hunter Biden is the unitary executive theory in action. But as with its kinsman, the Royal Prerogative, the trick is to get our hands on it. The always problematic Robert F. Kennedy Jr is a fierce supporter of this and this. Although there are also reservations about him, the best candidate, by far, is Cornel West. A vote to keep some crook in the Oval Office until he was 86 would be nothing but a self-indulgent spoiler for West. As would be a vote to send Trump back to that Office, when another way was available to dismantle the war machine.
They're bigging up Kennedy who won't be on the ballot instead of West who will. Can't think why. That's the Dems for you but Roe v. Wade has been overturned so what is the Republican Party for either?
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Abortion has been sent back to the states, which was all that the Supreme Court could ever have done. If it had been left to the Republican Establishment, then that would never have happened. Having made it happen, then what is Donald Trump for? If West is the successor to Ralph Nader and Jill Stein, then what of it? Would Al Gore or Hillary Clinton have delivered economic justice or international peace? Would a second term of Joe Biden? Would Kamala Harris? Biden is the self-indulgent spoiler. It is pure vanity to wish to remain President of the United States until the age of 86.
DeleteAbortion is no longer a federal issue so job done with the GOP for blue collar white social conservatives, blue collar black and Latino social conservatives never much fell for it all.
ReplyDeleteOverall, blacks are more religiously observant and more socially conservative than whites in otherwise the same demographic such as age or income. But the “black vote” is still overwhelmingly Democratic, because what should it be instead, and why? Why is the religiously conservative white vote Republican? But, again, what else is there? The wonder is that anyone religiously observant or socially conservative votes at all. Votes for whom? Votes for what?
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