He is indistinguishable from a deliberate attack from Western civilization's worst enemies.
What would Trump do differently if he were a Russian asset? I mean, besides trying not to be so obvious about it?
What would Trump do differently if he were a Russian asset? I mean, besides trying not to be so obvious about it?
Also I think you mean agent, not asset. He’s obviously an asset.
These two statements can't both be true for very long. The Democratic Party is going to reinvent itself. Turbulent and uncertain though it may be, this is how it works.
The GOP just used its generational transformation, has been given free rein to prove their ideas, and lo and behold: they suck!
I used to be more hopeful but if they won't act now, in the direst of times, then they must actually be completely bought by corporate interests.
> then they must actually be completely bought by corporate interests.
This is a non-sequitur. I know it's an easy out to avoid thinking through the actual mechanics at play here (one of which is certainly corporate interests), but it's worth being more curious about this stuff and the individuals' motivations.
It seems like their plan is a repeat of 2016, 2020, and 2024- to hope that Trump will be so unpopular that they can get elected without changing anything.
> A poll of more than 220 U.S. CEOs finds business confidence at lowest level since November 2012—and recession fears on the rise.
> Consumers’ expectations for the future at a 12-year low
https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-optimism-plummets-in-march-am...
Simplest way to make my point is to look at the confidence during covid vs January of this year.
There’s no such thing as an “actual indicator.” The economy isn’t a real thing that exists. It’s all correlates, some leading, some trailing, some accurate, and some inaccurate.
The contents of the shopping cart of the person in front of you is an indicator.
yes.
> It’s all correlates, some leading, some trailing, some accurate, and some inaccurate.
no. some things are actually measured, like employment rate.
sentiment also can be measured, but is meaningless, because it can contradict behavior, which actually affects the real world. sentiment certainly is correlated to behavior, which is why it's a good leading indicator, but is often wrong about what is happening (see the USA 2024 election, and covid).
Sure, employment rate is measured though uhh, via a survey just like consumer sentiment. The relationship between employment rate and "the economy?" A correlation.
The rest of your comment is umm... internally contradictory.
That has always been kind of questionable, and now it's laughable.
There's a distinct resemblance here between Putin's position, and Trump's.
So I take this in the dialectic sense - that it is not destructive but self-destructive.
Also the opposition's obsession with Russia points to their loss. The average American doesn't give a damn what Putin thinks. Trump is focused on the US (or maybe Canada or Greenland) while the opposition is focused on Russia. Liberal Denocrats disliked Russia when Khrushchev was in charge too, they just have some anti-Russian animus that you can read about in the New York Times back to 1925 and before.
Mitch McConnell, arguably the most powerful Republican senator in a generation, has also recently issued a rare criticism of Trump and his alliance with Putin, deeply damaging his own standing in his party.
We can also add many other conservative leaders who are no longer in power to that list, because there is no space for dissent in a fascist party.
But please continue to try and strawman the left as having no good reason aside from loss to raise the alarm on an obvious Russian asset controlling the worlds largest superpower