President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Now that I think of it, I once voted for H. Ross Perot in a middle school social studies class, so that's one I got wrong! Wait, he's not a D, so I guess that one doesn't count either. Dammit!

 

I voted for a terrible governor in our last election. I voted against her in our state's primary this year, but she won, so now I'm going to vote for her again because her opponents are a supporter of the current President and another guy who's a total clown show.

 

My Private Oval Office Press Conference With Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and Kelly

I'd heard this was a 'must-read' piece.
Many missed opportunities.

 

Bigpern, I'm not even voting anymore for who's going to help me protect my savings, I'm voting for who's going to fuckin keep me alive.

 

This is an incredibly lucid, well-thought out and eloquent take on the current state of our national divide. What the hell is it doing on our site?

 

Can you regret voting for someone who didn't win? What's to regret?

 

Wrong choice how though? Because you should have voted for the winner? Well, he or she won anyway. Because the loser turned out to be shitty later? Well, he or she lost anyway.

 

Speaking of Rudy, shouldn't he be appearing on a milk carton by now? Haven't heard a peep from him since before the Kavanaugh hearings started.

 

Probably smart that Cruz is skipping the CNN town hall with Beto. The more Cruz talks, the less people like him.

Ted Cruz Rejects CNN Town Hall; Beto O'Rourke Will Get Full Hour | HuffPost

 

This is worth chewing on for a long, long time.

Large Majorities Dislike Political Correctness - The Atlantic

It is obvious that certain elements on the right mock instances in which political correctness goes awry in order to win the license to spew outright racial hatred. And it is understandable that, in the eyes of some progressives, this makes anybody who dares to criticize political correctness a witting tool of—or a useful idiot for—the right. But that’s not fair to the Americans who feel deeply alienated by woke culture. Indeed, while 80 percent of Americans believe that political correctness has become a problem in the country, even more, 82 percent, believe that hate speech is also a problem.

It turns out that while progressive activists tend to think that only hate speech is a problem, and devoted conservatives tend to think that only political correctness is a problem, a clear majority of all Americans holds a more nuanced point of view: They abhor racism. But they don’t think that the way we now practice political correctness represents a promising way to overcome racial injustice.

The study should also make progressives more self-critical about the way in which speech norms serve as a marker of social distinction. I don’t doubt the sincerity of the affluent and highly educated people who call others out if they use “problematic” terms or perpetrate an act of “cultural appropriation.” But what the vast majority of Americans seem to see—at least according to the research conducted for “Hidden Tribes”—is not so much genuine concern for social justice as the preening display of cultural superiority.