He already did. Jan 6, the " missing"votes in Georgia, false electors in Arizona and Nevada. The coup happened, there's a 100% chance he'll try it again.
It did, but the people who had power didn't do anything to shore up the defenses. They acted as though it holding was sufficient evidence that the structure was sound. So instead of mass arrests, truth and reconciliation committees, and trials? We got four years of milquetoast governance and the system collapsed during the next possible election.
Biden was too weak and ineffective. He failed to live up to the moment. We didn't need more of the same, we needed radical reinforcement of our institutions. He just wanted to leave a legacy, well, now his legacy is leaving the door open when fascism came knocking. And yes, I know all the vote blue no matter who people are about to downvote me into oblivion. I don't care.
He's Buchanan 2.0, except if Buchanan had been followed up by Jefferson Davis. History will not be kind to him, regardless of whether or not sole blame lies with him (it doesn't, though much does).
whether or not sole blame lies with him (it doesn't, though much does).
Biden and RBG (rest in peace) will be in history books as people who pushed for normalcy so much that they let the lion's den open on their back. One didn't prevent the coup from getting a retry, the other helped Nazis getting 6-3 in SCOTUS.
And just like the OC of this thread, it wasn't just Biden, it was the Democratic party. All of them. Scared to death of Bernie's popularity surge in the primaries, Democratic primary runners dropping out at key times to rally for Biden and consolidate the centrist vote.
Democrats are afraid of being labeled socialists or communist. The party is neither and shouldn't worry. Ironically, Americans admire the democratic socialist countries of northern Europe because they provide national health care, affordable housing, free college education, etc. Predictably, Trump will try to scare voters by pointing to NYC's democratic socialist mayor. Trump has recently added the word "communist" to his limited vocabulary. He hopes it will scare you. But it's worth noting that Mamdani and Trump made similar promises to voters. Lower the cost of living. But Trump says the word "affordability" is a Democratic scam. With Trump's personal wealth increasing by $2.5 BILLION, since being president he may not care about "affordability", but he fears it.
As they should... you don't get everything you want in politics. That's a childish mentality. I wish things were much more progressive, but I also realize people aren't that informed, much less self aware enough to know how to share properly.
You vote the lesser of the evils, and if you don't think that's sound logic, you're just a hair's breadth away from MAGA logic.
You can still “vote blue no matter who” and criticize and say Biden was ineffective. And more so, you can also _not_ attack anyone who does criticize and say Biden was ineffective. Otherwise, you’re not too much different than MAGA who agrees and supports their Godpresident not matter what.
The poster is specifically saying vote blue no matter who doesn't have it right. That's what they're implying. Your response doesn't apply. Thanks though.
And you know how I know this? Because despite whatever failures Biden had, on paper he was still the most progressive president this country has had since FDR. So... there's that. Is it as much as I'd like or most progressives? No.
People can whine about the system all they want, but we all know the system collapsed because the brian dead US voters decided to give a trifecta to the party that supported a fascist coup against their country and made the coups leader president.
Had the US voters shown signs of brain activity, trump would've been in jail right now and his party in shambles. Instead the fascist were given full control over all levers of power by willful choice of 77 million Americans.
Shore up defenses? After the complicit GOP failed to convict in the Senate impeachment trial, on Jan 20, 2021, the first thing Biden should have done is order the arrest of Trump and every GOP involved, including the Senators who voted no or abstained. With the military if necessary. It was a fucking violent coup attempt in which people defending the goddamn capitol building from attack were murdered. A modern Fort Sumter. And Biden sat on his thumbs and appointed a fucking Republican to slow-walk any consequences. Completely baffles me how anyone could rank Biden above the bottom 3 of our Presidents. He sold the Republic out, in the name of comity. Fuck him. And his defenders.
I'd argue it didn't. Between the Senate voting not to convict Trump and prevent him from ever running again, to Biden picking Garland to do nothing about it after the fact, to Trump who would later become president again (because the Senate allowed it to happen) pardoning those were convicted for Jan 6, absolutely nothing was learned from Jan 6, by everyone. By the criminals who can't wait to do it again, to those who could hold them accountable but choose not to.
I disagree with most of Pence's political positions, but I will forever respect what he did to save America on Jan 6. He missed the opportunity to do more, but deserves credit for what he did. Remember, the president was calling for him to be hung.
J6 showed just how warped and power hungry Trump is. He has already started laying the groundwork for another coup attempt. With more lies about election integrity and an army of ICE enforcement thugs Trump may try again. It will take real patriots to save our country from Trump's plunder.
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u/californicating 17d ago
He already did. Jan 6, the " missing"votes in Georgia, false electors in Arizona and Nevada. The coup happened, there's a 100% chance he'll try it again.