The Downside of Impeachment

[Yonadav]

Unfortunately, people vote for charisma all the time. In 2000, my girlfriend refused to vote for Al Gore because she thought that he was boring. I couldn't change her mind about it. People really do vote as if they are electing someone to be the star of a television show, so it is really not too surprising that a reality television show personality became president.

By 're-elected' I think that she meant that Pence was elected to become president if something happened to Trump.

It is possible to have ethics and charisma, Obama and JFK had that. Most of our other presidents really simply either did a good job or not, but none of them, have acted in the bat shit insane way 45 has. He is not politics as normal.

You keep giving good examples of how overly valuing charisma makes you dumb. You hate Reagan for cutting taxes on the wealthy. But Reagan was a student of JFK's economic policies. Trickle down economics were JFK's brainchild. Not Reagan's. JFK's trickle down economics are routinely referred to when Republicans advocate for the idea that tax cuts boost the economy. Lionizing and villainizing are ways of selectively processing reality.