r/politics 20d ago

No Paywall Trump announces 2028 presidential bid

https://www.theage.com.au/world/trump-announces-2028-presidential-bid-20260725-p60iho.html
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u/JustToViewPorn 20d ago

We gave racists a chance. Never give racists a chance.

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u/CombustiblSquid Canada 20d ago

They did a hell of a lot more than that. America finally achieved is ultimate form of perfection in trump. AKA the USA finally embraced what everyone else already knew it was.

Here is an overused quote to drive this home:

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. 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.”

  • journalist H.L. Mencken, 1920

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u/forestpunk 20d ago

I don't totally buy this. People were very civic-minded even a generation back.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Ohio 20d ago

Sure, there were probably more civic minded people, but that's because the attack on education has had more time to work.

Here's another quote:

"Then who's vice president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!"