The underlying point is true: Dems are not ready. The other point, that the author felt "the left" had failed them by hate and vituperation might or might not be true: I don't know, I don't follow the US politics well enough to be sure.
I do believe (and said so on the medium feedback) that the critical question is: do the Trump voters actually expect him to deliver? If not, its ideology, and so his failures don't matter. If they do expect him to "heal amerika" then they are in for a huge disappointment.
Most of the people who supported the nazis initially were probably reasonable decent people who would not have supported any of the horrible things that were ultimately done.
This does not make any of it OK. There are fundamentally things wrong with trump and with the republican party that aren't wrong with the democrats and we can't afford to be tolerant.
I find it interesting that "not shouting" seems to be an argument for the right. I've recently taken a bit of time to read through some right wing think tanks, from the laughably simplistc PragerU to the slightly more sophisticated AEI to the academic writing style of Cato.
One thing they all have in common is the aesthetics of rationality. Of, "unlike the left, we like to have discussions rationally". They don't ever engage the left, and any of their points are easily disproven, but repeating them ad-nauseam while seeming to be reasonable (no matter if you are) seems to be sufficient to a large number of people.
No wonder those trying to counter this propaganda get tired and seem patronizing to those that just enjoyed a nice fireside chat with Dennis Prager about how the left despises free speech.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 19.6 ms ] threadI do believe (and said so on the medium feedback) that the critical question is: do the Trump voters actually expect him to deliver? If not, its ideology, and so his failures don't matter. If they do expect him to "heal amerika" then they are in for a huge disappointment.
This does not make any of it OK. There are fundamentally things wrong with trump and with the republican party that aren't wrong with the democrats and we can't afford to be tolerant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_German
One thing they all have in common is the aesthetics of rationality. Of, "unlike the left, we like to have discussions rationally". They don't ever engage the left, and any of their points are easily disproven, but repeating them ad-nauseam while seeming to be reasonable (no matter if you are) seems to be sufficient to a large number of people.
No wonder those trying to counter this propaganda get tired and seem patronizing to those that just enjoyed a nice fireside chat with Dennis Prager about how the left despises free speech.