Think about it, he actually has a point.
Yea, but at one point he was doing very well until he decided to drop out and then come back. He never regained that momentum.
We needed a new Constitution in 1865…….
I'm not saying don't try, only that I'm skeptical of how effective it's going to be. But one can always hope for the best.
If there is new leadership that is willing to right the ship of state.
Anything is better than Trump. Him leaving the scene won't fix everything, but it will be an improvement. Vance would be a terrible president, but he'd be much, much better than Trump. Same with Rubio, Cruz, etc.
I don't think anyone is as polarizing as Trump and that was true even before he won. He has a grip on the party and the country like no previous person has.
Stick with the party and fellow travelers. There has been little or no time that he was liked or respected by half the country. You can sell those lies to the true believers.
Polarizing doesn't mean "liked". He has captured the Republican party to a degree I've never seen AND he's captured the Democratic party, liberal media, etc like nobody I've ever seen.
The Republican Party betrayed the country for power, religion and Trump. He's a charismatic front man but he's an idiot and senile The Republican Party is getting a lot of what they bought but they're having to ride the Trump tiger to do it. I hope he chews their ass off during the death throes of his administration.
And we got one. With half the states sitting it out.
I think that's in large measure because young people have grown up in a world in which news is treated like a spectator sport. How many thought-out justifications did you see, as opposed to sort of generalized approval?
I see no evidence that's the case, especially with Vance.
The problem is NOT that we are divided.
That would be great, but I have a feeling the people who would do something like this, including Luigi, want nothing more than to trigger the type of hyperbolic meltdown we're seeing from the American Right.One thing I’ve been considering is whether the Kirk assassination might have a cooling effect on extreme left wing violence just as a practical matter — by demonstrating how counterproductive violent extremism can be.
I’ve been disturbed about how many people, especially young people, have seemed to support the murder of a health company executive by that Luigi guy. I think the support there actually bridges a left/right political divide, but certainly there seems to be a lot of celebratory response and building up Luigi as — not exactly a folk hero but a meme for revenge against an unjust system(?)
And while a lot of the responses to Kirk’s death that are being tagged by the right as “celebratory” when they are really a refusal to concede that Kirk was a good person or are saying that Kirk’s own rhetoric contributed to the general radicalization that led to his death, some of it has been outright celebratory. Which people have a First Amendment Right to engage in but is certainly unbecoming and seems similar to me to celebratory responses to the Luigi murder.
Probably just wishful thinking on my part, but I think it would be a good thing for people (especially young people who are statistically more prove to radical violence) to learn the lesson that aside from being morally wrong, political violence can be deeply counterproductive. That was NOT the lesson people seemed to take from the Luigi murder (in part because it wasn’t so much ‘political’ as societal), but maybe could be a lesson learned from the Kirk assassination.