Intelligencer political columnist Ross Barkan says President Donald Trump appears to be singing the same old tune from his first term.“After spending much of the year on a sort of revanchist blitzkrieg that terrified the left and convinced many that his second term would far outpace his first, Trump...

Intelligencer political columnist Ross Barkan says President Donald Trump appears to be singing the same old tune from his first term.

“After spending much of the year on a sort of revanchist blitzkrieg that terrified the left and convinced many that his second term would far outpace his first, Trump has begun to genuinely fail,” said Barkan. “And the failure, for those who followed the last time closely, is familiar: Rising autocracy is headed off by rank incompetence.”

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  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    219·
    2 days ago

    “The odds of him violating the Constitution to seek a third term are remote and even if he did, it’s difficult to see how a four-time GOP nominee in his 80s with an underwater approval rating could defeat a standard Democrat who has triumphed in a primary."

    That’s adorable, this guy thinks the Democrats are having a primary. It will be more like a coronation for Gavin.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      I remember back in 2008 when the role of Gavin Newsome was played by Hillary Clinton.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Exactly, and Democrats learned their lesson! They will never take a chance on an actual contested primary again. It will look like it’s contested, because there will be several people running, but after the first few primaries most of them will bail and throw their support to the Next One Up, to make sure the desired outcome is achieved.

          • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            Yes, that was 16 years ago. Every “contested” primary since then has been engineered to get the Next One Up over the goal line. They did it with Hillary, and with Biden. Then they skipped over the primaries entirely for Harris.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      13·
      2 days ago

      Fuck Gavin, he is the very definition of empty, performative theater masquerading as center left politics.

      If I was planning to run as a Republican in the next presidential election I would be preying I get to run against Gavin Newsom, he is as close to a Republican’s sneering idea of an elitist smarmy corporate Democrat as you can get.

      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        2 days ago

        How long is going to take your country to realize that the Dems don’t actually care about you either? There’s the “haves”, and the “have nots”.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          1 day ago

          Based on polling the US public is there already, the US just isn’t functional enough of a democracy for it to matter.