Democrats and Republicans find themselves in a unique position: they both agree on something. Economists from left to right agree that the economy desperately needs stimulus. But neither party wants to move forward before the election because they fear the other one would take credit for the benefits.
Some progressives are planning to vote for Joe Biden in order to send a very specific message. Unfortunately, the powers that be do not read minds.
Even Democrats seem to agree that asking judge Amy Coney Barrett about her religious beliefs would be going to far, even though some of those beliefs are pretty strange.
If nothing else, the political and economic collapse of the United States means it no longer has much stomach for lecturing other countries.
The centrists and moderates who control the mainstream Democratic Party repeatedly tell progressive voters that they are not needed or wanted. But when progressives refuse to vote Democratic, they are vote-shamed.
Everyone focuses on the Republican areas where the locals refuse to wear a mask in order to make a political statement of some kind. But there are other areas, dominated by liberal Democrats, where a different kind of insanity prevails.
The New York Times has obtained years of Donald Trump’s tax returns. As suspected, the president has avoided paying taxes to a dramatic extent, declared many millions of dollars in losses and appears to have created a fortune based on BS. In other words, he is a great businessman.
Both parties are so personally loyal to the current presidential nominees that they will support them no matter what they happen to do or say. In this case, both emperors have no clothes.
President Trump says that he does not promise to necessarily leave the White House quietly or nonviolently even if he loses the election.
Democrats say the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it more important than ever to vote for Joe Biden. But Biden probably won’t get to replace Ginsburg as Supreme Court justice.
