What I find particularly frustrating about "if you criticize Joe Biden, you're helping Trump turn us fascist" is that Joe Biden, as president, and the Democratic leadership for the past 8 years have *** assiduously avoided a direct confrontation with Trump, or taken any actions that would truly frustrate or impede his work towa…
What I find particularly frustrating about "if you criticize Joe Biden, you're helping Trump turn us fascist" is that Joe Biden, as president, and the Democratic leadership for the past 8 years have *** assiduously avoided a direct confrontation with Trump, or taken any actions that would truly frustrate or impede his work towards ending democracy in the US ***.
The few times the Democrats have directly attacked Trump, they have been dragged and cornered into it by Trump's brazen, egregious criminality. When Trump directly attacked Biden with an outrageously corrupt and unethical blackmail scheme to jam up Ukraine, Democrats calculated that they couldn't just slink away from some kind of confrontation. Same with Trump's coup attempt that culminated in in his Jan 6 attack on Congress. Even these impeachments were narrow. A reasonable person might judge that impeaching Trump over his corrupt Ukraine ratfuck attempt should also include all the other corrupt things Trump and his family did, out in the open, during his term, and a reasonable person might also judge that, after Jan 6, the first order of business for the new Democratic administration should be to haul Trump into the hoosegow in handcuffs for an attempted coup, because Trump was a direct threat to the authority of the people and the US government. But not the Democrats, and not Joe Biden.
Joe Biden and Merrick Garland's justice department have followed the pattern of avoiding conflict with the GOP and Trump, presumably in the service of renewing bipartisan rapprochement with the GOP (which has, of course, gone great. The fever has finally broke! ha ha ha.). Garland finally indicted Trump for withholding classified documents after 2 years of pretty-pleasing didn't work, and finally assigned a special prosecutor when various states lapped him by indicting Trump for the various criminal acts he engaged in before and during his term as POTUS.
Set aside valid grievances the left has with the Democratic party and Biden, and you still have Biden and a Democratic party that does not understand the grave threat Trump poses to us and/or are too woodenheaded or scared to do anything about it. The only way it seems that Biden would stop Trump from implementing his fascist aspirations would be to occupy the presidency as someone who isn't Trump. That's it - that's the plan.
I truly believe that Trump is dangerous, and I believe that he should be stopped by any means necessary. I'm sure we have all had online debates where someone who's defending Biden will ask you "well, what would YOU do about Trump, then?", as if Biden has been going hammer and tongs after Trump and his lieutenants and various lickspittles.
I'm not supposed to have that answer, Biden is supposed to figure it out. He's the president! Any leftist (indeed, any educated person) is fully aware of the many perfectly legal ways the federal government can make your life hell - if they want to. Numerous progressive, civil rights, environmental and anti-police movements have been surveilled and hauled into court on anything a state or federal prosecutor can dream up. The feds and the cops have surveilled Muslims for 20 years since 9/11, simply for being Muslim. Weathermen and Black Panthers have been fugitives for years; you could fit the full prison sentences of 20-30 Jan 6 goons have served into the jail time any one member of either group served in prison, when the feds caught up with them. Don't ask ME figure out how the goddamn President of the United States can dragoon Trump and his clutch of fascists!
"Voters" alone can't stop Trump. Voting for Biden is necessary, in the narrowest of ways, but not sufficient, for stopping Trump. It's truly useless if Biden continues to avoid nailing Trump to the wall in his next term - Trump, his capos, and his movement are obviously amping themselves up for violence, and laying the groundwork for more attacks on anyone they believe is standing in their way. All the things Biden's defenders tout: "the economy", incremental domestic policy successes - the conceit that Bidden is "the most progressives president" - all of it is moot if he doesn't stop Trump. He's not doing anything to stop Trump or protect people from Trump's various goon squads. Biden's online defenders know this - that's why they're yelling at you.
Hear hear.
What I find particularly frustrating about "if you criticize Joe Biden, you're helping Trump turn us fascist" is that Joe Biden, as president, and the Democratic leadership for the past 8 years have *** assiduously avoided a direct confrontation with Trump, or taken any actions that would truly frustrate or impede his work towards ending democracy in the US ***.
The few times the Democrats have directly attacked Trump, they have been dragged and cornered into it by Trump's brazen, egregious criminality. When Trump directly attacked Biden with an outrageously corrupt and unethical blackmail scheme to jam up Ukraine, Democrats calculated that they couldn't just slink away from some kind of confrontation. Same with Trump's coup attempt that culminated in in his Jan 6 attack on Congress. Even these impeachments were narrow. A reasonable person might judge that impeaching Trump over his corrupt Ukraine ratfuck attempt should also include all the other corrupt things Trump and his family did, out in the open, during his term, and a reasonable person might also judge that, after Jan 6, the first order of business for the new Democratic administration should be to haul Trump into the hoosegow in handcuffs for an attempted coup, because Trump was a direct threat to the authority of the people and the US government. But not the Democrats, and not Joe Biden.
Joe Biden and Merrick Garland's justice department have followed the pattern of avoiding conflict with the GOP and Trump, presumably in the service of renewing bipartisan rapprochement with the GOP (which has, of course, gone great. The fever has finally broke! ha ha ha.). Garland finally indicted Trump for withholding classified documents after 2 years of pretty-pleasing didn't work, and finally assigned a special prosecutor when various states lapped him by indicting Trump for the various criminal acts he engaged in before and during his term as POTUS.
Set aside valid grievances the left has with the Democratic party and Biden, and you still have Biden and a Democratic party that does not understand the grave threat Trump poses to us and/or are too woodenheaded or scared to do anything about it. The only way it seems that Biden would stop Trump from implementing his fascist aspirations would be to occupy the presidency as someone who isn't Trump. That's it - that's the plan.
I truly believe that Trump is dangerous, and I believe that he should be stopped by any means necessary. I'm sure we have all had online debates where someone who's defending Biden will ask you "well, what would YOU do about Trump, then?", as if Biden has been going hammer and tongs after Trump and his lieutenants and various lickspittles.
I'm not supposed to have that answer, Biden is supposed to figure it out. He's the president! Any leftist (indeed, any educated person) is fully aware of the many perfectly legal ways the federal government can make your life hell - if they want to. Numerous progressive, civil rights, environmental and anti-police movements have been surveilled and hauled into court on anything a state or federal prosecutor can dream up. The feds and the cops have surveilled Muslims for 20 years since 9/11, simply for being Muslim. Weathermen and Black Panthers have been fugitives for years; you could fit the full prison sentences of 20-30 Jan 6 goons have served into the jail time any one member of either group served in prison, when the feds caught up with them. Don't ask ME figure out how the goddamn President of the United States can dragoon Trump and his clutch of fascists!
"Voters" alone can't stop Trump. Voting for Biden is necessary, in the narrowest of ways, but not sufficient, for stopping Trump. It's truly useless if Biden continues to avoid nailing Trump to the wall in his next term - Trump, his capos, and his movement are obviously amping themselves up for violence, and laying the groundwork for more attacks on anyone they believe is standing in their way. All the things Biden's defenders tout: "the economy", incremental domestic policy successes - the conceit that Bidden is "the most progressives president" - all of it is moot if he doesn't stop Trump. He's not doing anything to stop Trump or protect people from Trump's various goon squads. Biden's online defenders know this - that's why they're yelling at you.