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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    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.

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      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”.

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