http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Biden-beats-Trump-tp7599426p7599489.html
My generous read is that the Trump enablers are allowing Trump to rage for a while, let the lawsuits demonstrate their pointlessness, let him fiddle with the government pointlessly, and hope that he'll come up with a suitably Trumpian way to concede while not conceding, probably a grandiose resignation. Arguing with him about this is clearly a one way ticket to his shit list, and having watched him rally so many voters to his candidacy they are loathe to give even the least hint of abandoning him. The TV networks taking his rants about fraud off the air probably discourages him more than anything else. Maybe we should offer to throw him a state funeral -- with tanks and flyovers -- for the end of his term? And promise that everyone will say it had better ratings than the Biden inauguration?
The exit polls heard that 34% of voters voted the economy, On TV I saw a black business woman from North Carolina say her vote for Trump was about the way he was making it easier for her business to succeed. Then I heard a young latino from Florida say his vote was against the democrat socialist tendencies. I listened to a neighbor from the projects, who actually voted Biden, rant about the evil of a welfare system that has institutionalized single motherhood as a career and intergenerational family tradition. These aren't the typical voices of Trump's base, these are traditional Republican issues: government regulations hurt business; you can't fix the world by telling it to be better, no matter what penalties; the best intentions can have unintended consequences worse than the original disease. These people weren't voting for rascism, misogyny, narcissism, authoritarianism, xenophobia, gimp shaming, science denialism, or all that other baggage, they were overlooking it for reasons.
It might be my own fantasy, but I think a majority of Americans do not disagree about the ends. They would prefer an equitable society where none of the usual suspects biased any one person's pursuit of happiness in life. They would prefer to live in a world where environmental disasters large and small were not lurking around every turn of the season. They would prefer if the rest of the world enjoyed the prosperity and freedom that we have here. But there is a disagreement about the means to these ends that's been a Democrat/Republican talking point for almost a hundred years now.
I think the Democrats and Progressives need to eviscerate the Trump coalition by persuading the rational part of Trump's vote that it doesn't need hold their nose and vote for Trump to be heard. Well, I guess they did have to, but they won't have to in the future. That will be an interesting feat of bipartisanship if Biden can pull it off. Call it the New Way Forward.
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