Robert F Kennedy Jr’s campaign bankrolled by Republican mega-donor ( www.theguardian.com )

Spendrill , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

If you have observed politics here in the UK you will see that the process is that in order to remove the Conservative Party, the Labour Party has to present a small ‘c’ conservative leader to the public. Any attempt to present a genuinely progressive leader will get the media, the legacy press particularly, throwing a tantrum and shit will fly about.

I am firmly convinced that Trump was elected because the Democrats managed to get a black man elected as president.

As historic an event as that was Obama was not a particularly progressive president. His foreign policy was still very conservative and there was some problematic stuff about the way he authorised drone strikes, even against his own citizens.

Unfortunately the very fact of him being a black man caused a very large minority of people to lose their minds. And Trump was able to speak to those people.

If it were not for the fact that he is facing a great number of legal challenges Trump would storm the Republican primaries. In fact he still might. So the Republicans are left with a man who looks like he may end up in prison (he probably won’t but it’s going to trouble floating voters) or DeSantis, who isn’t winning any friends in the centre.

So what’s a Republican mega donor to do?

What if the Democrats swung hard to the right? After all, they used to be affiliated with “a certain society, I don’t believe I gotta mention its name, heh-heh…”

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Unfortunately the very fact of him being a black man caused a very large minority of people to lose their minds. And Trump was able to speak to those people.

Despite being from the other side of the pond your perception of American politics is very accurate. I would include that AM radio and cable news "primed the pump" for this, as millions of people outside of the cities were subjected to constant propaganda.

You know why the profile picture for most conservative men is them sitting in their truck? Because they spend a lot of time there, either commuting or driving professionally. Because they're in the middle of nowhere they don't get FM radio, so they listen to AM radio which is almost entirely conservative talk radio.

So these Guys in Trucks have heard Rush Limbaugh (rest in piss) and his ilk every day for years, making them powderkegs.