POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[ReluctantSamurai]

What do you think of Biden's Pittsburgh speech?

It's a start, as Hooahguy stated. However, it's reactionary as opposed to being proactive. It's possible that Gov. Evers privately talked to the Biden campaign asking him not to come, but Biden should have anticipated Trump would, and pre-empted his visit and the resulting camapign-op, by being the first one there and speaking to local government and the protesters, IMHO. We all know Trump's visit is a BS campaign-op, but the visual looks like "Look, the President cares enough to show up in person. Where's Joe Biden?"

Presidential elections are decided more by the fundamentals than anything, and this matchup is almost a Platonic form. Unless the process takes precedence, which it has. Between fundamentals and process, there isn't much space left

Here's where I think Wizard's First Rule [which I alluded to earlier] applies:

"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."

And Fearless Leader will continue to bang his drum of "Law & Order" and more and more stupid people will believe him because they see the scenes of burned-out businesses promoted by news media to garner ratings, or they are afraid that he might be right about those "Marxist, Left-Wing Radicals" disguised as Democrats. Look, I know many folks see through Trump's BS, but I'm talking about taking the offensive and use a variation of Reagan's 1980 catch phrase by asking Americans: Are you safer today than you were 4 years ago? 184,686 Americans can't even answer the question because they're dead. I'd venture that the over 16 million unemployed would probably say they aren't. Three months of this pandemic cost more people their jobs than two years of the Great Recession. Ask the over 12 million who have lost their job-related health insurance if they feel safer today than 4 years ago.

All I'm hoping to see is to attack Fearless Leader where he believes he's strong---Law & Order. Don't let the Law & Order battleground be simply daily pictures of riots and looting, which is the drum Trump will constantly beat. Tie his worse than abysmal pandemic response, the accompanying economic catastrophe, the fact that he is actively stoking racial tensions by calling on right-wing radicals to 'defend their cities', (and as I pointed out in an earlier post [https://www.vox.com/2020/6/16/212866...ng-the-police] it's actually Trump who is defunding the police) and start asking the American public---Do you feel safer today than four years ago?