RE: Bush V Gore and Florida and Trumpism.
July 29, 2021 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2021 at 3:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There were actually legal means. Many Americans believe otherwise because of a cynical pr blitz. He conceded on the advice of one of his lawyers for exactly the reason you note- worries that it would damage the national psyche. We’ve since seen that any democrat winning anything would cause those, no matter what they did.
Like I said before. My guy won that one, so I wasn’t upset by it- but I was young and naive at the time. Perhaps, had Democrats not gotten into the habit of rolling over, they could have helped the gop resist its current death spiral, if nothing else, as the foil of loyal opposition.
Perhaps I’d still be a republican, perhaps I’d see some point to voting.
But that’s not what happened. He rolled, and dems decided that going republican light was the way forward. The gop had to differentiate itself….and this, this that we see today, was how it did so. The bushes are rinos now, and the thing blocking legislation of a unified government isn’t the opposition or the minority party. Meanwhile, Brian, a bleeding heart lib if there ever was one, started this thread by reading the script the trumpets were clinging to at the time- completely oblivious to that (or any other) fact…I suspect.
I think we’re fucked.
Like I said before. My guy won that one, so I wasn’t upset by it- but I was young and naive at the time. Perhaps, had Democrats not gotten into the habit of rolling over, they could have helped the gop resist its current death spiral, if nothing else, as the foil of loyal opposition.
Perhaps I’d still be a republican, perhaps I’d see some point to voting.
But that’s not what happened. He rolled, and dems decided that going republican light was the way forward. The gop had to differentiate itself….and this, this that we see today, was how it did so. The bushes are rinos now, and the thing blocking legislation of a unified government isn’t the opposition or the minority party. Meanwhile, Brian, a bleeding heart lib if there ever was one, started this thread by reading the script the trumpets were clinging to at the time- completely oblivious to that (or any other) fact…I suspect.
I think we’re fucked.
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