The most funny thing about this entire era is that Hillary is 1000 times more honest than Trump. That's just too delicious.
Trump supporters during this era are going to look like those dudes from the 1950s who were against mixed race marriages. Standing on the steps of the Capitol saying that interracial couples were communists. You guys are just going to look so old and outdated so fast.
And then a bunch of people are going to die and the kids of today will take over. So unless Donald Trump (and Mitch and today's Republicans) can govern from the grave all of this crap Trump is doing these days will be overturned.
I am fairly certain that is what will happen. The only question that seems to remain is the matter of timing.
Which leaves the serious question of whether the next generation wants the US to be the major world and economic power that it has been since the end of WWII.
The future belongs to Mellenials and to this generation that just graduated high school, never knowing what it was like before school lockdown drills, 9/11, or the internet. (It wasn’t really better, no matter what your grandfather tells you! He just doesn’t remember when his grandfather said the same things about his generation!).
None the less, the America I grew up in did have faith in itself, and boundless faith in the future.
Which is the thing I most like about the emerging generations. It renews my faith in the future.
But no one should make the mistakes that the American people made in 2016. No one should underestimate the power of the reactionary right wing forces taht drive the secretive billionaires that control the GOP, or the collection of racism, no nothing ness, fear and xenphobia that is the right wing narrative now. Because it has strong echoes in our past. These are tropes that survive the generations, and are especially embraced in the South, the Midwest, and the far west. In that respect, it’s not much different now, than it was in 1919.
In 1919, the US walked away from its role and responsibility as the world power that emerged at the top at the end of WWI.
We did not make that mistake in 1945.
But we appear to be making it now. With Donald Trump and his backward looking base at the head of the parade.
The US will never be the country it needs or deserves to be if that retreat from the world continues.
I’m a Biden guy because we need to show the world familiar stability. Biden is very well known and respected on the world stage.
He was surrounded on the stage at the last debate by an all star cast of potential cabinet secretaries, a UN Ambassador, and some strong Senators and Governors.
I don’t think Joe Biden will serve more than one term. Age argues against it. But his one term will be highlighted by the team in the warmup circle.