Even better people
In the interview [with Tucker Carlson], Trump said that his administration was hampered by bad staffing choices — picking a kind of Republican he derisively referred to as “Bushies” for top jobs, citing former Attorney General Bill Barr as an example. This time around, Trump said, that won’t happen: “We’ll have even better people if we do this because now I know Washington.”
There’s every reason to believe he’s serious about this. Reporting by the New York Times’s Jonathan Swan and others has revealed extensive preparations to ensure that, this time around, everyone in power is loyal to him — including brazen power grabs like the mass firing of career civil servants and asserting direct presidential control over historically independent federal agencies.
Trump unchained, in short, doesn’t just mean skipping debates to stoke conspiracist flames with Tucker Carlson. It means that, if Trump wins the general election again, he will be even more dangerous than he was the last time around. And if he loses, he will attack the result’s legitimacy however he sees fit — with the weight of a Republican Party, held captive by its own voters, at his back.
We have about a year and a half to live.
I watched bit and pieces of that interview. The whole time I was thinking about the revelations that Carlson was telling everyone at FOX how much he hated Trump and then there they were kissing and hugging.
The interview parts that I watched were a couple of parts where Trump said he was better than other people and him saying “I’m not going to say anything bad about this person” before going on to do just that.
And then there was one part where he wailed about an airport runway in Cuba being built by the Chinese and how he’d put a stop to it.
But I have to be honest; compared to Biden, Trump is way more awake and coherent. It speaks volumes to the Democratic Party’s insanity that when the 2020 election was supposedly incredibly important, because Trump’s second term would be guaranteed fascism, … and he just HAD to be defeated, and the Democrats had Sanders (polling as the most popular politician in the country at the time) running for the nomination, that they all coalesced around this corporate tool, who voted for the invasion of Iraq, steered the Bankruptcy Bill through the Senate, and helped create the crime bill that produced an explosion in incarceration rates (especially Black incarceration rates), … and now they’re apparently stuck with this idiot. All because Sanders wanted to raise taxes and restore some Roosevelt/LBJ social programs.
@Me — I’m no fan of Biden either, but the fact that a decrepit career politician beat the Mighty Trump also speaks volumes. I don’t think Biden would have had a snowflakes chance in hell if it wasn’t for his connection to Obama.
Sanders would’ve gotten his ass handed to him and if he wanted the party’s support he should’ve joined the Democrats for real. Do wish we had another Obama though…
Bernie Sanders is an admirable person but he would have been a total failure as a president. It’s all very well that he sticks to his principles — which, for the record, I admire — but that’s not how you actually accomplish anything, especially with a hostile Congress. Biden can actually play the actual game and he has gotten actual results. [And if more than a handful of Republicans also cared more about results that would make the world a better place, instead of mindlessly sticking to their principles, then we’d all be much better off, including Republicans.]