Donald Trump

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I think he’s a heartbeat from the nomination.

It'll be a bold move from the Dem's this close, but stranger things have happened.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

It'll be a bold move from the Dem's this close, but stranger things have happened.

I mean a literal heartbeat away!

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Newsom 2024 is a good shout!!!

Newsom would lose to Trump.

I really don’t think people who keep pointing to him understand how much even liberal Californians dislike him.

French Laundry-gate is who he is. Tough to overcome.

 

[GornikDaze]

Funniest bit is someone put an Ice pick in my hand and I only broke a window :)

Surely the funniest bit is the fact she didn’t vote for Trump anyway! What an idiot.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I mean a literal heartbeat away!

Yeah. With the age of TCG that is definitely a possibility. I still think Newsom needs more time.

 

[laserblue]

Funniest bit is someone put an Ice pick in my hand and I only broke a window :)

But the MAGAs will claim that nobody brought any weapons but if they did it was Antifa and the FBI and Pelosi organised it.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Newsom would lose to Trump.

I really don’t think people who keep pointing to him understand how much even liberal Californians dislike him.

French Laundry-gate is who he is. Tough to overcome.

Newsom would lose to Trump due to low turnout. People wouldn't be prepared to hold their noses like they did with Biden.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Newsom would lose to Trump.

I really don’t think people who keep pointing to him understand how much even liberal Californians dislike him.

French Laundry-gate is who he is. Tough to overcome.

Does that translate as pretentious ****?

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Does that translate as pretentious ****?

Not so much, but hypocritical. Same as that garden party during COVID that happened over there. Especially given how aggressive the state was on lockdowns here. A guy who doesn't understand how that looks right off the top has judgment issues, not to mention the upper-crust nature of the venue where it happened.

That said, he's a pragmatist (as all ex-mayors of San Francisco have been and must be to navigate the quite-frankly insane Board of Supervisors) and intellectually sharp. But how he could possibly win crossover voters/independents vs. Trump is beyond me. Biden has the best chance because he can lever his accomplishments and always has the bully pulpit in whatever form he chooses to utiliz(s)e as the incumbent. Do not discount the resources and the power of the President in office when campaigning starts in earnest.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Reagan came in after America felt utterly denuded, impotent and out of control. Losing Vietnam, Watergate, inflation, an aggressive Fed jacking rates, recession, the energy crisis (being held to ransom figuratively) and then the Iran hostage drama (being held to ransom literally). Carter was the best of men, but woefully ineffective. So Reagan wrapping himself in the flag was 1) honestly how he felt, 2) necessary in his mind politically to win and 3) an attempt to shift confidence levels in the future. History has been kind to Reagan’s first term; less his second (he delegated too much domestic policy to idiots and then there was Iran-Contra which he was too naive to prevent). So I look at his jingoism vs Trump’s fascism as very different. In many ways Reagan really was selflessly devoted to America — maybe more so than any President since, though that’s arguable. And certainly he birthed an awful lot of serious issues later — especially from a trickle-down laissez-faire economic perspective — but in many ways I think that’s due to his naïveté rather than him being sinister.

Reagan was a far more decent human being than Trump. Not even close.