POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[ReluctantSamurai]

From the NPR link above (referring to 68 of the top 100 counties hardest hit by the pandemic voting predominantly for Trump):

[...] "it's not the case that people are totally unresponsive to death and bad things happening in their area." But "if you are someone who already trusts the president and you trust him to handle the crisis, then you are both not as concerned as Democrats are and you're more willing to trust that he is the person who can keep you safe and keep the country safe from COVID," she says.

Keep the country safe from COVID? I'm starting to lean more towards ACIN's evaluation that people are just fucking stupid and are easily swayed by media. It so reminds me of Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule [People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.]

Given the results in the House and Senate, it is not surprising Dems did poorly in the state legislative races.

This is an area that the Democratic Party needs to start paying more attention to...politics at the grass-roots level. If we want to see such things as voter suppression, gerry-mandering, and the like put into recession, then the party needs to oust as much Republican control at the state level as is possible. Otherwise we will continue to see things like court-packing (I referenced this earlier---the GOP has mounted 20 efforts in the last 10 years to pack state supreme courts, and succeeded twice in Arizona and Georgia), or the ability to control the narrative (as in Texas where Gov. Abbot limited polling places to one per county in an obvious attempt to suppress Democratic voting areas like Houston's Harris County).

Also I kinda resent the pundits who are saying that we now need to play nice with Trumpists. Like yeah we shouldn't needlessly antagonize them but for four years they were all "cry more libtards" and now we are supposed to pretend none of that has happened?

Something former NJ governor Chris Christie and a guest GOP senator (can't remember exactly who) on ABC's Roundtable Discussion said when posed the question of how to reach a more bi-partisan agreement on policy issues, was all about the Dems need to do this and the Dems need to that. Screw THAT kind of elitist talk, folks. Bi-partisan talks go both ways. This is why I have little hope that Biden/Harris will get anything meaningful done that requires Congressional approval unless both senatorial seats in Georgia are taken by the Dems. The Grim Reaper isn't going to budge an inch on anything that doesn't benefit the GOP.

So Trump is going to try to drag this out as long as possible

They know they're screwed. Even if they manage to get a few ballots here and there thrown out, it won't be enough to change the outcome. Many on the White House staff know this and are already applying for other jobs:

https://www.axios.com/trump-defeat-i...8e38b74c9.html