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>He does, but before that happens, the legitimate medical community needs to look in the mirror, reflect on how he happened, why they lost some amount of trust, and look to remedying that.

Okay but surely we can agree that the appropriate response to "legitimate medical community"'s failings shouldn't be RFK, nor should opposition to RFK be conditional on "look in the mirror, reflect on how he happened ..."? I agree such reflection should happen, but the "but before that happens ..." wording is bizarre. It's like having some domestic terrorist kill a CEO, and then responding to that with "before we can stop domestic terrorism, corporate america must look in the mirror about how it failed rural white blue collar workers in appalachia or whatever"

He wasn't elected, but sometimes (spiritual) protest votes win. If Harris had won and appointed a conventional secretary, it would have been a status quo that people haven't been happy with.

> but the "but before that happens ..." wording is bizarre

Biden was very much a status quo president who didn't do much to fix underlying problems. The result was the protest vote winning again.

Status quo is preferable to regression and destruction in my view.

Building things takes time, destruction does not. The protest vote was in favor of destruction.

I don’t think Biden was status quo so much as he led a deliberate and traditional administration.

I think most people who voted Trump back into office expected him to do pretty much the same thing he did his first term: yap yap yap, play golf and some other nonsense.

In my opinion, 2nd term Trump is at least 10x worse than the first term.

Agreed.

Also, this is usually the case with any president because they are only focused on doing doing things in their first term that will get them reelected. Then all bets are off on the second term because who cares about ratings.

Given that people seem to have forgotten the fact "two wrongs doesn't make one right" and whataboutism going mainstream, all answers are going "but what about "mainstream" x". X can be everything from media to medicine in this case.

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