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This is like one of those Russian elections in which your choices are either Putin or some decrepit, on-the-take member of the Communist Party.

So it’s Joe “Yeltsin” Biden vs Donald “Zyuganov” Trump vs. Robert “Lebed” Kennedy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election?wprov=sfti1#Results

This is good news for Biden then, Russian electoral fraud notwithstanding.

[NYT Op-Ed] I’ve Seen How the Biden-Trump Rematch Ends, and It’s Pretty Scary

An elderly president isn’t sure whether he should run for a second term. His approval ratings are low, and there are concerns about his health. His advisers, adamant that he is the only bulwark against a formidable opponent, insist that his candidacy is crucial for the survival of democracy. If he does not run, they say, dictatorship will prevail. Despite his reservations, the president agrees. He pledges to defeat his opponent and protect his country’s future.

This isn’t America today; it’s Russia in 1996. That aged president is not Joe Biden but Boris Yeltsin. His fearsome rival is not Donald Trump but the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. As I watch the American presidential campaign unfold, I’ve been constantly reminded of their contest. For all the differences between them, I can’t shake a sense of déjà vu.

So at some point, Olaf Scholz will find Biden wandering around Berlin in his underpants, and eventually Kamala will be replaced with with Mayor Pete who ascends to the presidency and in 2050 or so invades Canada under Prime Minister Nathan Fielder?

Unfortunately, yes.

Delaware and Connecticut aren't as blue either.

but as I said, Obama was able to manage to crack 60% in those states in 2008. The Democrats never had 60% there in like more than 50 years.

Calling:

TX-23 R: Gonzalez
TX-35 R: Wright

With Maverick numbers fixed:
https://twitter.com/RenzoDowney/status/1795670208918573126

Crucial Waukesha El Paso County

With Maverick numbers fixed:
https://twitter.com/RenzoDowney/status/1795670208918573126

Kennedy because he would be good on the environment and also had the added benefit of believing in Democracy. We could go on all day about the ways he's better than Trump but yeah.

He's absolutely right there's a Cultural Revolution-like element to this. And that is bad.
I'm still voting Biden though.

Are you concerned there won't be enough people brave enough to serve as Confederate re-enactors on the 200th anniversary of the American Civil War once the dust settles, and the anti-Lost Cause Movement has triumphed utterly?  

I think we've replaced one wrongful dogma with another equally wrongful dogma.
I prefer what Thomas Sewell has said over both.
Everything I see in the anti Confederate statue movement makes me want to side against it. American Red Guards. They don't understand history. They don't stop at Lee or Jackson. They went after Lincoln and Washington too. They want to rebuild our civic ethos from the ground up. Sorry, I'm not up for that. Give them an inch they'll go a mile.
Year Zero. That's what the idea is.

He's absolutely right there's a Cultural Revolution-like element to this. And that is bad.
I'm still voting Biden though.

Are you concerned there won't be enough people brave enough to serve as Confederate re-enactors a generation from now on the 200th anniversary of the American Civil War once the dust settles, and the anti-Lost Cause Movement has triumphed utterly?  

He's absolutely right there's a Cultural Revolution-like element to this. And that is bad.
I'm still voting Biden though.

No objection