Democrats engaged in all sorts of histrionics during the 2024 presidential campaign, in which the centerpiece of their message was that Donald Trump represented a grave and existential threat to democracy and might even open concentration camps as a genuine fascist. Now that he has prevailed, there is no indication that they believed any of that. Why are they still here?
Fight or Not Flight
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Yeah, thanks for the Ted Rall typical strawman. The reality is that trumpster fire will make the world worse, as opposed to better. There will be too many ways to count.
In the Netflix series “Sandman,” Death and Dream are in a pub, in 1389. After a comment by the mortal Hob Gadling, Death grants him immortality. Thinking it’s a joke, Gadling agrees to meet Dream at the same pub, to tell him all about it, in 1489.
I think about that scene a lot. Even before Trump won, when the media was blasting how four more years of Trump would mean the end of democracy, I was asking, “Okay. What if you’re wrong?” Specifically, I asked the media crowd, what will it do to media credibility if, after four more years of Trump, he simply retires to Mar-A-Lago, having done no more (or less) to ruin the country than any other president? How will the media be able to ask (or expect) anyone to take them seriously? Most of the time, the question was blocked by “moderators” or removed for being “political” (even though it clearly isn’t political). On the few occasions it slipped through (via a comment to someone else’s comment, no one replied). I notice that ross is exemplifying the same phenomenon now: he isn’t answering the question. He’s simply repeating his initial assertion.
So I ask the question again: “How will the media be able to claim any reputational authority of any kind if, in four years, the Trump presidency is no better/worse than the second term of Reagan or Cheney?”
I’ll see you all back here … on Jan. 21, 2029.
rossevrymn says that, at the end of the Trump presidency, the world will be worse. Less inflation? Worse. Fewer immigrants? Worse. The world will be different in four years, and in every way that it is different, rossevrymn says that way is ‘worse’.
That’s an ‘argument’ against which there is no retort, rossevrymn is entitled to rate the world much, much worse, in every way that it differs from 2024.