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The Next 4 Years.
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What are you expecting?
A tranquil all-encompassing, fairer society?
Personally, I don't think anything will change. Antifa and BLM will continue to smash America up at any given opportunity and there will be no Donald Trump to blame.
I doubt either group has any love for Biden.
A tranquil all-encompassing, fairer society?
Personally, I don't think anything will change. Antifa and BLM will continue to smash America up at any given opportunity and there will be no Donald Trump to blame.
I doubt either group has any love for Biden.
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Over the last few days we've seen Donald Trump lying through his teeth to falsely declare victory before the votes had even been counted.
We've seen sinister mobs of Trump cultists descending on election counts across the United States to intimidate ballot counters, and undermine the fundamental basis of democracy.
We've seen Trump's son Donald Jr. publicly calling for "total war" over the election results (the concept of "total war" coming from German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels who announced it at the Berlin Sportpalast on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies).
And we've seen Trump's 2016 campaign manager and national security adviser Steve Bannon demanding the beheading of infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, and the FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Now that Biden has won it's already provoking an awful lot of complacency from intolerably smug liberal capitalists, with their toddler-like declarations that "the adults are back in charge" (as if infantilising something as dangerous as Trumpism isn't utterly deranged).
But what's going on is deeply concerning whatever the outcome, because extremism, hate, profoundly anti-democratic sentiments, and political cultism like this don't just disappear overnight.
It's a fact that 70 million Americans voted for Trump, meaning that they saw four years of his corruption, incompetence, lies, and pandering to the extreme-right, topped off with 230,000+ needless coronavirus deaths and the worst economic collapse in living memory, and thought 'yes please! I want four more years of this!'
70 million people aren't just going to disappear overnight, or have instant and profound revelations about how wrong they've been; the Republican Party isn't going to simply forget that they won the 2016 election with extreme-right Trumpist populism; and Trump isn't just going to demurely fade into the background if Biden takes the Presidency.
The liberal capitalist fantasy that a Biden win would erase Trumpism from the political map is an absurdly dangerous comfort blanket, because forces as powerful as this don't just disappear overnight.
In fact Trumpism is likely to be refined and sanitised so that the next breed of Republicans spouts the same kind of hateful and divisive Trumpian rhetoric and lies, but in a much more slick and professional manner.
And biggest advantage they'll have is the smug complacency of those who imagine an ultra-marginal Biden win represents some kind of final and decisive nail in the coffin for Trumpist extremism, rather than the kind of setback to make it regenerate into something even more extreme, hateful, and sinister.
We've seen sinister mobs of Trump cultists descending on election counts across the United States to intimidate ballot counters, and undermine the fundamental basis of democracy.
We've seen Trump's son Donald Jr. publicly calling for "total war" over the election results (the concept of "total war" coming from German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels who announced it at the Berlin Sportpalast on 18 February 1943, as the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany and its Axis allies).
And we've seen Trump's 2016 campaign manager and national security adviser Steve Bannon demanding the beheading of infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, and the FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Now that Biden has won it's already provoking an awful lot of complacency from intolerably smug liberal capitalists, with their toddler-like declarations that "the adults are back in charge" (as if infantilising something as dangerous as Trumpism isn't utterly deranged).
But what's going on is deeply concerning whatever the outcome, because extremism, hate, profoundly anti-democratic sentiments, and political cultism like this don't just disappear overnight.
It's a fact that 70 million Americans voted for Trump, meaning that they saw four years of his corruption, incompetence, lies, and pandering to the extreme-right, topped off with 230,000+ needless coronavirus deaths and the worst economic collapse in living memory, and thought 'yes please! I want four more years of this!'
70 million people aren't just going to disappear overnight, or have instant and profound revelations about how wrong they've been; the Republican Party isn't going to simply forget that they won the 2016 election with extreme-right Trumpist populism; and Trump isn't just going to demurely fade into the background if Biden takes the Presidency.
The liberal capitalist fantasy that a Biden win would erase Trumpism from the political map is an absurdly dangerous comfort blanket, because forces as powerful as this don't just disappear overnight.
In fact Trumpism is likely to be refined and sanitised so that the next breed of Republicans spouts the same kind of hateful and divisive Trumpian rhetoric and lies, but in a much more slick and professional manner.
And biggest advantage they'll have is the smug complacency of those who imagine an ultra-marginal Biden win represents some kind of final and decisive nail in the coffin for Trumpist extremism, rather than the kind of setback to make it regenerate into something even more extreme, hateful, and sinister.
My mother frequently called me Margaret and she didn't even have a child named Margaret... :-)
Not sure about the UK but it's a great result for Ireland. As for America? It'll take a lot to repair the damage of the last four years but I have hopes of things improving.
If they don't it'd be a great shame but at least I don't have to see and hear so much from Trump and that's a bonus.
Not sure about the UK but it's a great result for Ireland. As for America? It'll take a lot to repair the damage of the last four years but I have hopes of things improving.
If they don't it'd be a great shame but at least I don't have to see and hear so much from Trump and that's a bonus.
