The Presidential campaign obviously does offer some home. But it also offers Joe Biden. (Joe Biden says he didn't think anyone thought Trump 'would be as bad as he is' during the 2016 presidential election Business Insider 07/23/2019)
Trump is already in full campaign mode and continuing to radicalize the government and the Republican Party.
The language we are hearing from Trump and his defenders foreshadows a fresh incoming tide of hate crimes.— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) July 20, 2019
https://t.co/QC5WlBpe28
And House Speaker Pelosi's level of "resistance" seems to have reached its high point last November.
Republicans in Congress have blocked efforts to hold the Trump Administration accountable. The new Democratic House will confront the #CultureOfCorruption in the Administration, just as the Constitution requires. pic.twitter.com/RKh467jn3M— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) November 9, 2018
Last week's PBS Newshour's Political Wrap segment with Mark Shields and David "Bobo" Brooks was a fairly grim spectacle, Shields and Brooks on Trump’s attacks, Biden vs. Sanders on health care 07/20/2019:
That segment is one for the "democracy had a nice run" file. In summarizing the political week which included Trump's "send her back" Nuremburg rally, the most telling moment in this segment is Judy Woodruff saying "Al Gore" when she means "Joe Biden". Josh Marshall wrote years ago that our mainstream press is wired for Republicans. (Wired TPM 02/19/2009)
We’re coming off of, or at least we’ve had a period of (because who knows about the future) thirty plus years of conservative dominance of Washington. By some measures you could say forty years. But at least thirty, notwithstanding Bill Clinton’s eight years in office. That conditions a generation of people with mindsets based around Republicans being the party of power, the party whose ideas get vindicated at the polls. Most of all Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power. But a generation of one party holding the reins selects for certain kinds of journalists in key positions of power, the policy experts at the think tanks who get the journalists calls, the lobbyists who move the most money and so forth. You build up a set of assumptions about what kinds of people and ideas are respectable and which aren’t. Which are old-fashioned, which are ‘cutting edge’ and so forth. Who defines conventional wisdom?Now it's more that they are wired for boring, for the good ole days when everybody could have a good chuckle over the latest Maureen Dowd column quoting what the voices in her head were saying about what a sissy Al Gore is.
In all of these respects, DC remains overwhelmingly wired for the GOP. [my emphasis]
The Political Wrap team wants to Make America Boring Again. Because, hey, everybody they talk to is doing fine, so why are those colored girls in Congress complaining about Master Legislator Nancy Pelosi? What Shields says about the economy could literally be used in a Trump campaign ad. He and Bobo also agree that people passionately love their health insurance companies and that ever'body knows once you git that thar Medicare thang you cain't git no insurance no how.
They aren't "wired" for dealing with the radical anti-system party the Republican Party has become.
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