POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[Montmorency]

Important short video clip.
https://twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/s...05353250435078 [VIDEO]

Wow, Trump has held more than 60 rallies this year, of which more than a dozen in the past 7 days. Previously I had remarked that the 3 dozen rallies he held ahead of the midterms were the hardest he had ever worked in his life. He's really wilding in the last throes of his political career.


jesus - but a reminder that Donald Trump could have cruised to reelection had he not been one of the very worst leaders in world history.

Why Duterte is the world’s most popular leader
Philippine president's approval ratings hit 92% despite widespread perceptions he has bungled nation's health and economic crises

Seems plausible, wonder where it would fall for the 2020 cycle.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ey-study-trump

The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study.

In a significant shift since 2000, the GOP has taken to demonising and encouraging violence against its opponents, adopting attitudes and tactics comparable to ruling nationalist parties in Hungary, India, Poland and Turkey.

The shift has both led to and been driven by the rise of Donald Trump.

Regarding earlier posts about "hispanic" voters in USA.

1. The more recent term of art is Latinex, avoiding a presumption of sex superiority and noting that Spanish, while very common as a language and cultural antecedent of these cultures and co-cultures, is not ubiquitous. Portugese, Nuhuatl (sp?), and Mayan influences along with any number of West African influences are part of the Latinex mix.

2. Latinex voters are not a monolith. Cuban descent, especially among older generations, are staunchly GOP on the basis of hate/opposition for the Castro regime. Most of the other Latinex groups are much more divided and many trend Democratic.

I dislike Latinx because it is phonotactically defective, and almost no actual Hispanics use it (which, to be clear, is itself a wholly-invented category centered on the American bureaucratic lens, is not formally synonymous with Latino, and is as valid as any term when it comes to endonymous usage). One poll found only 3% uptake. But it is understandable that Latinx would have minimal uptake outside media style manuals and some college-educated youth; it was originated specifically by and for the part of the American Latin(x) transgender demographic who don't find representation in - typically - Spanish gendered inflection. It is unclear that their preference can become a universal standard.

I hear Latine is popular with the transgender demographic in Mexico, and it doesn't have the problems of Latinx; maybe it will catch on.

To be clear to all readers, almost no Hispanic or Latino groups in any state of the Union are anywhere close to voting 40%+ for Republicans, and have never been except for a window of time in the 90s and 2000s. Almost all polling confirms this. Imagine declaiming a demographic consisting of tens of millions as instinctively conservative when it routinely votes against Republicans at all levels by 20-40 points. Follow the numbers! If all Hispanics voted like Cubans and Republicans were less destructively-fascist (cf. the study referenced above), they really might hold permanent majorities. Meanwhile, I could entertain that the modal high-school educated white male in the suburbs is tanned, rested, and ready for the syndicalist revolution...
(Hint: high-school educated white men vote for Republicans in similar proportion to how Hispanics vote for Democrats)