As shitty as Democrats are, I don’t think they’re detached from material reality to this extent.
I mean, they constantly think Trump is just on the verge of being jailed any day now and ignore literally 200 years of precedent of that never happening to people who deserve it.
It doesn't help that there's a hundred headlines every week insisting "the walls are closing in on Trump" and "Trump just stepped right into Mueller's trap card."
Media corporations managed to keep liberals confident that impeachment and imprisonment was right around the corner for Trump's entire first term. Will it work as well if he wins again?
They did at one point, but that ship has largely sailed. It was a foolish hope to begin with (although a proto-fascist reality TV star with a ton of shady connections coming out of the woodwork to win the presidency is pretty fucking unusual, so hoping for something equally unprecedented doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities) but the fact that it failed and they moved on shows they're not just completely out in left field.
Besides that, talk to a Trump voter and a Biden voter about the economy and the pandemic. Who do you think is going to have takes that at least somewhat align with observable reality?
I mean, they constantly think Trump is just on the verge of being jailed any day now and ignore literally 200 years of precedent of that never happening to people who deserve it.
It doesn't help that there's a hundred headlines every week insisting "the walls are closing in on Trump" and "Trump just stepped right into Mueller's trap card."
Media corporations managed to keep liberals confident that impeachment and imprisonment was right around the corner for Trump's entire first term. Will it work as well if he wins again?
They did at one point, but that ship has largely sailed. It was a foolish hope to begin with (although a proto-fascist reality TV star with a ton of shady connections coming out of the woodwork to win the presidency is pretty fucking unusual, so hoping for something equally unprecedented doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities) but the fact that it failed and they moved on shows they're not just completely out in left field.
Besides that, talk to a Trump voter and a Biden voter about the economy and the pandemic. Who do you think is going to have takes that at least somewhat align with observable reality?