Trump: the Second Term

[DracoM]

[Serial_Apologist]

That's what I love about the UK
we would never get a misogynist racist to be our prime minister

Were Trump to be elected for a second term, it would sadly disprove my hope that "middle America" is more amenable to a political change of perspective that we are, in closed-minded "Great Britain".

[gurnemanz]

Both Trump and Johnson have electoral evidence that people will fall for any old populist claptrap. If it worked once, it may well work again.

[MrGongGong]

Both Trump and Johnson have electoral evidence that people will fall for any old populist claptrap. If it worked once, it may well work again.

I remember hearing something on R4 after Trump was elected about how people were quite happy for him to be a liar and they all knew he was fundamentally dishonest but he wasn't perceived as being hypocritical unlike his opponent (who actually got more votes)......In the UK it's only recently that the media have started to call like likes of Johnson out for being liars.

[DracoM]

Both Trump and Johnson have electoral evidence that people will fall for any old populist claptrap. If it worked once, it may well work again.

[Triforium]

There were many celebrities that swore they were going to move to Canada after the 2016 election. I read an article about a year ago that reviewed it and of about 15 people cited only one actually did.
Bloomberg and Obama’s former A.G. Deval Patrick making a late entry only shows how inept the Democrats are. If they had been able to field a reasonable, middle of the road candidate, Trump would be toast. I am personally working for Elizabeth Warren, but I am appalled at how badly she has handled the realities of informing the Country how she would finance her Revolution, and how poorly she fared with the backlash.
Between she and Sanders I do think this country has taken a turn towards socialism, but it will probably be one or two elections before a younger candidate can succeed with their agenda. Joe Biden hasn’t a lot of support beyond the Black Community, and the revelations about Ukraine aren’t helping (he may not have broken any laws, but it smacks of cronyism, and the longer the Impeachment Process drags on, the more people start to question him). Bloomberg? He was a Republican Mayor of New York, and most Americans outside of NYC don’t know who he is. It is all to depressing

This might shed some light on Warren - https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ot-progressive