gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoA Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.www.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square346fedilinkarrow-up1546arrow-down1107file-textcross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
arrow-up1439arrow-down1external-linkA Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.www.washingtonpost.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square346fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down6·1 year agoBecause the party isn’t going to defy the incumbent president. This should be obvious.
minus-squareAabbcc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·1 year agoIt’s not obvious, please explain why not. He’s worse for their chance of winning.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·1 year agoThe why not is that he wants to run again and he’s the president. Why do you think the Democrats would say no to him? He’s the president.
minus-squareAabbcc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoThose reasons are total dog shit
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWhat do you think happens when you tell a president no? Do you think he says, “okay then, you know best.”
minus-squareAabbcc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoIn a functioning democracy or in the United States
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI think you can figure that out based on everything we’ve been talking about so far.
minus-squareFaeDrifterlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago He’s worse for their chance of winning. Incumbent statistical advantage is mathematically a better bet than trying to get leftists to vote for you, because the leftists won’t vote for you anyway. If the Dems ran a better candidate, the leftists would boycott them instead.
Because the party isn’t going to defy the incumbent president. This should be obvious.
It’s not obvious, please explain why not. He’s worse for their chance of winning.
The why not is that he wants to run again and he’s the president. Why do you think the Democrats would say no to him? He’s the president.
Those reasons are total dog shit
What do you think happens when you tell a president no? Do you think he says, “okay then, you know best.”
In a functioning democracy or in the United States
I think you can figure that out based on everything we’ve been talking about so far.
Incumbent statistical advantage is mathematically a better bet than trying to get leftists to vote for you, because the leftists won’t vote for you anyway.
If the Dems ran a better candidate, the leftists would boycott them instead.