[…] It’s unbelievable that the nation is spending so much time on the question of Biden’s verbal acuity, when the greatest concern ought to be that his challenger is a self-aggrandizing felon and twice-impeached election-denier. Trump fomented the Jan. 6 insurrection, shows contempt for the rule of law and shamelessly lies in pursuit of more power. He’s an authoritarian who admires murderous despots, wants to jail his political enemies and has publicly flirted with declaring himself a dictator on his first day back in office.
With fervent support from the Republican Party, he peddles cruelty, racism and misogyny, demonizing immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country,” demeaning women‘s looks and intelligence, and using disgustingly fascist language to criticize his opponents as “vermin.” He’s a man who lied about his wealth for years to cheat on his taxes, whose business was convicted of criminal tax fraud, and who’s been denounced by many former aides and Cabinet members as a “malignant narcissist” who recklessly puts himself before the American people
Trump is the only man in the presidential race manifestly unworthy of holding a position of power, and has no business ever returning to the White House. If the GOP had any decency left, its members would be discussing whether to dump Trump for a candidate who isn’t out to bulldoze democratic institutions in favor of autocracy […]
- Prezhotnuts ( @Prezhotnuts@lemmy.ca ) 25•4 months ago
Not American, but why can’t it be both? American election cycles are such a circus. There is so much time left before the election.
- BioDriver ( @BioDriver@beehaw.org ) English27•4 months ago
Correct. While neither are fit for office, one will staff smart people to do the job for him while the other will actively burn US democracy to the ground. A lot of us aren’t voting for Biden as much as we’re voting against Trump, and god damn do I wish this wasn’t the case (again).
- djsoren19 ( @djsoren19@yiffit.net ) 11•4 months ago
It can! People should already know Trump is unfit for office, it’s basically all the Dems were talking about from 2016-2020.
- WatDabney ( @WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ) 24•4 months ago
If the GOP had any decency left, its members would be discussing whether to dump Trump for a candidate who isn’t out to bulldoze democratic institutions in favor of autocracy
Except that they want to bulldoze democratic institutions in favor of autocracy. That’s their explicit goal.
Trump isn’t the important part to the Republicans - he’s just the one who happens to have a chance to deliver what they want.
- Admiral Patrick ( @ptz@dubvee.org ) English21•4 months ago
If the GOP had any decency left…
The “if” in that sentence is operating way out of design tolerances and doing far more heavy lifting than it was ever rated to carry.
In the future please put articles like this in politics.
- BearOfaTime ( @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 4•4 months ago
“Verbal acuity”?
The man hasn’t been able to carry a conversation in a bag for years, and we have hours of video showing his mental emptiness.
He tried to shake the hand of someone who wasn’t there.
He’s being abused by his handlers.
- Nollij ( @Nollij@sopuli.xyz ) English13•4 months ago
And yet, somehow, he’s still more fit for office than Trump.