The top story at the
New York Times today is a poll showing that Democrats don't want Biden to be President again. Sixty-four percent overall, but the number among Democrats under thirty rises to
94 percent.
UPDATE: Today the NYT follows up with a poll from the Republican side, showing that
half of Republicans are ready to move on from Trump.
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Those numbers are very high, even higher than usual, but it pays to remember that sometimes party nominees get there because they were the last one standing, and two years before no one wanted them. It's going to matter who else runs. If they get clobbered in the midterms as expected, someone will break the seal and run hard against their own incumbents "for the good of the party."
You'll note that The Press is Reporting all sorts of "Trump can't.......Trump isn't..........Trump shouldn't" stories and polls.
Almost as if there's a puppeteer out there.
I don't think they need a puppeteer. They're all in the same club, the elite journalists and the bureaucrats, Congressional Representatives and the like. The House and the NYT and the Washington Post all read from the same script because they all know each other, and mostly only each other. They really don't see that there's any other way to see things.
Yup, Trump is living rent free in the lap dog Media's incredibly small lizard like brains. Trump derangement syndrome on display.
Lying Thumb Suckers all of them.
Greg
Stuart Varney was running down the list of possible Democrat replacements if Biden does not or cannot run in 2024. All I could think of was "I'd vote for None of the Above." That also applies to a large swath of the Republicans as well.
LittleRed1
I think it was 2016 when I realized that I didn’t want another President of the United States. Trump was a surprisingly welcome change, but very far from ideal and in some ways not good enough. I’d really prefer to dissolve the Union than to elect anyone else.
I voted for Trump twice, but not again. He’s too damn old. He couldn’t control his own staff, and got bull rushed by his son-in-lsw and daughter. If he runs, I will go with Desantis.
That's a workable number for Trump- he knows there are plenty like me that would vote for him if he wins the primary, though I would be unlikely to vote for him in the primary. That's basically what he did last time. As you said, last man standing. I held out for Cruz, but when he lost the primary, I knew I'd vote for Trump.
There's little evidence primary challenges rescue the situation, at least at the very top. Even LBJ standing aside didn't put Humphrey over the top, Carter was fatally damaged by Ted Kennedy's primary challenge, the only thing Ross Perot did was enable Bill Clinton's election by a plurality, Ronald Reagan was able to withstand John Anderson's sore loser run as an independent. If a change in the Democrat party is going to happen, it's going to happen starting at the grassroots level the same way Reagan won the nomination in 1980 and the Tea Party changed the GOP starting in 2008.
I’d really prefer to dissolve the Union than to elect anyone else.
I'm just curious about this. As an academic discussion, what would you like to see happen?
As an academic discussion, what would you like to see happen?
I'd like to see a Convention of States called as per Article V of the Constitution, at which we agree to amend the Constitution to dissolve it. At that point, the several states could partner up into new (smaller) unions if they wished, as perhaps the Northeast would want to do. States could also hold similar conventions at home and dissolve if they feel like they're internally divided along geographic lines: North Carolina could dissolve east/west, with Western NC joining Tennessee to create a much more natural political union.
Then everything would be easier, almost: legislation and budgets could get passed, because people would agree on basic values. The continent would become somewhat more like Europe; we'd probably want to negotiate a free trade area and freedom of travel. We might break up the Army, but agree to jointly fund the Navy to keep the sea lanes open. That could be based on existing joint command structures like Supreme Allied Command -- Europe.
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