Why Trump Won’t Win
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Why Trump Won’t Win
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/trump-2024-win-why-unlikely/676354/
His threats to democracy make him dangerous. They also make him a weak candidate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/trump-2024-win-why-unlikely/676354/
His threats to democracy make him dangerous. They also make him a weak candidate.
"The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
- Douglas Adams
"HE'S JUST LIKE US!" ignores that he's a New York elite who shits in a gold plated toilet
He is what they want to be. Morons lack imagination. They want to be who they are right now (ie racist, sexist, narcissistic pigs) but also rich and immune to consequences, or seemingly so.
His blatant criminality and removal from anything resembling real-life struggles is not a downside that's ignored. It's part of the draw.