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To the Spoiled Go the Victors

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Ted Rall

Whatever you think about Donald Trump’s cabinet picks for his second administration, whether or not you think they are qualified, very clearly he and his transition team are having a wild time choosing them and dropping them on a shocked establishment…maybe a little too wild.

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Mainstreamers Are Insane

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Ted Rall

Our topsy-turvy morals: Marco Rubio is considered a safe, “normal” nominaiton for Secretary of State even though/because he’s a rabid neoconservative (read: warmonger). Tulsi Gabbard is considered quirky, even loopy, despite her military service because she shares the view of the rest of the world that the US is too imperialistic and aggressive. RFK Jr., who desperately wants to clean up our food, is considered frightening.

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And Give Up All This?

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Ted Rall

One of the assumptions of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential bid was that voters didn’t want radical change of any kind. She promised an incremental approach designed to gradually improve things without altering what she assumed were beloved American institutions like the courts. In reality, life for most Americans is pretty bleak and they don’t have much investment in those longstanding traditions.

End of the Affair

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Ted Rall

One of the more puzzling decisions of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign was to make numerous appearances with Liz Cheney, the far right neoconservative who is despised universally both by Republicans and Democrats. Now that Trump has prevailed, in part due to decisions like this, it’s likely that the blossoming friendship isn’t what it used to be.

Feel the Love

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Ted Rall

Many swing voters who opted for Donald Trump told pollsters that they felt that Democratic coastal elites looked down upon them and that they were reacting against the feeling that they were viewed with contempt. After the election, as if to confirm their suspicions, Democrats repeatedly said that people who voted Republican were stupid.

When We Fight Progressives, We Lose

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Ted Rall

Defeated Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris studiously refused to make any concessions whatsoever to her party’s large left-wing progressive base, including on the important issue of genocide in Gaza. Now that Democrats are conducting their postmortems, the one thing they fail to acknowledge is that alienating your base voters and driving away 12 million of them wasn’t such a bright idea.

Fight or Not Flight

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Ted Rall

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?

The Blame Game

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Ted Rall

Defeat is an orphan. But defeated Democrats, themselves responsible for losing an election to Donald Trump that should have been easy to win, are flailing about trying to pin the blame on everyone but themselves.

Trump Wins

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Ted Rall

Now that Donald Trump is coming back, there will be one positive side effect: many Democratic voters who sideline protests for social justice when the president is a Democrat, as he is now, will head back to the streets and take up the good fights they’ve been sitting out.

Zero Mistakes

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Ted Rall

Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan. The phenomenon is accelerating as election postmortems that identify tactical and strategic errors in a campaign are going the way of the dodo bird.,

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