Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
Somebody seems to have instructed #Trump that he was supposed to have been spiritually transformed by the attempt on his life, so he delivered the opening segment of his address in a dreary monotone, the Trump version of pious solemnity. After that prologue, the speech meandered along bizarre byways to pointless destinations. A few mins before midnight ET, Trump pronounced a heavy “to conclude”—& then kept going….

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy#ReproductiveRights#VotingRights#ClimateChange

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Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
…#Trump demonstrated in Milwaukee that President Joe #Biden is not the only national politician diminished by the years. Trump too is dwindling into himself, even more isolated from such #facts about the external world as elapsed time & audience impatience.

Formless & digressive as it was, the speech did have one major theme—a theme that underscores why & how the #Democrats should be winning this race.

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy#ReproductiveRights#VotingRights#ClimateChange

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Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
#Trump stood on the podium in Milwaukee to sell nostalgia for his term in office. In fact, the Trump presidency ended in disaster, by many measures the worst 4th year of a presidency since Herbert Hoover’s in 1932: #pandemic, mass #death, #EconomicCollapse, #rioting, & a surge in #violent #crime. By contrast, #Biden’s presidency is delivering the best 4th year since … whose? Bill Clinton’s in 1996? Ronald Reagan’s in 1984? Calvin Coolidge’s in 1924?

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy

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Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
#Unemployment has reached the lowest level in >50 yrs. Post- #pandemic #inflation has stopped & gone into reverse. The #StockMarket has soared to record highs. Social indicators too are improving from the #chaos left by #Trump. In each yr of Trump’s presidency—not just pandemic 2020, but the 3 yrs b4 that—the rate of US marriages & childbirths dropped. Under #Biden, marriages & childbirths are rising again. #Overdose #deaths are lessening. The Trump-era #violent- #crime wave is receding at last.
Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
[BTW, the marriage/childbirth metric is Frum’s not mine]

The contrast could not be starker. Yet, if the polls are correct, it’s not helping #Biden.

The #Trump theory of his presidency is that Trump deserves credit for the good times of 2017, 2018, & 2019 & no discredit for the crisis of 2020. But both halves of that are backwards. The economy started growing fast in 2014, so Trump arrived in office just in time to claim credit for work that had been done by his predecessors.

#BidenHarris2024