(02-12-2020, 02:32 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-12-2020, 02:18 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Biden wins the Democratic nomination, if at all, by overpowering everyone else among non-white minorities scarce in the electorates of Iowa and New Hampshire. Otherwise -- the "perfect phone call" that John Bolton called "a drug deal" may have successfully knocked off what seemed like Trump's most ominous rival.
I doubt most Democrats believe Trump's lies. Voters are nervous about Biden's ways of coming across right now, and think that he may be past his prime and too ineffective against Trump.
Possible. The SNL satire (and it is good for explaining much in politics) has Biden as a doddering old-timer.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.