Showing posts with label US Presidential race 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Presidential race 2016. Show all posts
Atlantic ✒ America will have to contend with that fact.

Tom Nichols
Author of The Death of Expertise 

The moment every Donald Trump opponent has been waiting for is at hand: Joe Biden seems to be taking the lead. So why am I not happy?

I am certainly relieved. A Biden victory would be an infinitely better result than a Trump win. If Trump were to maintain power, our child-king would be unfettered by bothersome laws and institutions. The United States would begin its last days as a democracy, finally stepping over the ledge into authoritarianism.

A win for Biden would forestall that terrible possibility.

But no matter how this election concludes, America is now a different country. Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it. His voters can no longer hide behind excuses about the corruption of Hillary Clinton or their willingness to take a chance on an unproven political novice. They cannot feign ignorance about how Trump would rule. They know, and they have embraced him.

Continue reading @ The Atlantic.

A Large Portion Of The Electorate Chose The Sociopath

Mick Hall @ Organized Rage believes:

What Trump's victory in the US presidential election shows is the old way of doing politics is no longer viable

No Longer Viable