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Hopefully, a pandemic--for which the United States government was utterly unprepared--will eventually radicalize Democrats who spent the past several years pointing to how much worse Republicans were.
I don& #39;t expect this conversion to happen all at once, but it must happen.
I don& #39;t expect this conversion to happen all at once, but it must happen.
As I& #39;ve said over the past month, of course Trump has been very bad in responding to the pandemic, but it wasn& #39;t just him.
It was Bill Clinton. It was Bush 43. It was Obama.
20 years of policy choices put us in a position of widespread unpreparedness, chiefly re: supply chains.
It was Bill Clinton. It was Bush 43. It was Obama.
20 years of policy choices put us in a position of widespread unpreparedness, chiefly re: supply chains.
I totally understand the focus among moderate Democrats to get Trump out of office. No explanation needed... but that can& #39;t mean leveraging every political debate in ways which ignore or push away the Democratic Party& #39;s *profound, decades-long* participation in bad policy choices
If you, as a moderate Democrat, are truly serious about changing the way this country operates -- such that it is prepared for the next pandemic or global crisis -- you will eviscerate establishment D party leaders, not just Trump, because a LOT of people brought us to this mess.
Obama policy prevented us from getting more ventilators.
The innards of our governmental workings haven& #39;t improved under Trump, but they were already bad when Trump took office.
Decades of policy choices on supply chains and making stuff here, not China https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
The innards of our governmental workings haven& #39;t improved under Trump, but they were already bad when Trump took office.
Decades of policy choices on supply chains and making stuff here, not China https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2...
Decades of neoliberalism rotted our systems from the inside, reducing flexibility+concentrating power in fewer hands.
This is a 2-party problem. Pretending it& #39;s a 1-party problem is not only unserious, but a manifestation of the lack of self-criticism which leads to social decay
This is a 2-party problem. Pretending it& #39;s a 1-party problem is not only unserious, but a manifestation of the lack of self-criticism which leads to social decay
Pointing to how bad the other side is -- as sufficient reason to promote your side -- is, by definition, "lesser evilism," not a positive vision of social improvement.
It is quite literally emphasizing a smaller amount of harm done, not an added amount of good done.
It is quite literally emphasizing a smaller amount of harm done, not an added amount of good done.
