Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "CNN" channel.

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  15.  @kohlcooke8789  Biden isn't trying to beat "angry Bernie fans." Most Bernie fans are liberals or Social Democrats, which means they are pretty close to Biden and will support him. There are a few hundred thousand Red Diaper babies out there, children of Communists. Some of these people, perhaps ten or twenty thousand in the entire country are not particularly "political" in any civic or contributory sense. They are emotional outsiders, often rightwing extremists. Of the political ones, and now we're down to probably one-digit thousands, many believe in the olde tyme Leninist doctrine of "le pire le mieux," the worse is better -- making things bad will bring their revolution faster. These are your Trump-before-Biden Bernie Bros. They are loud but they are few. You have to keep your eye on the facts. Fact One is that Hillary beat Trump by three million votes. Trump is a glitch in the Constitution, a side-effect of the nasty compromises of 1785~87 when the current Constitution was being written after the failure of the 1776 Articles. Trump is tall, energetic, televisual, confident, and assertive. He's attractive and convincing if you're not paying attention. A lot of people have been sucked in by him, and importantly a lot of special interests, greedheads, reactionaries and the few fascists out there have found him useful. On the other hand he is ignorant, of mediocre intelligence and essentially negative learning, and harmful -- harmful essentially to the interests of the barstool philosopher class who have followed him. If people pay attention and act with good sense, 2020 will be a wipeout of Goldwater-scale proportions. The GOP could be wrecked for a generation, leaving only pieces to be reconstructed in some different way. America no doubt has a place for principled conservatives, an edge party of the Never Trumpers. The Democratic Party of President Obama and the Cllintons stands for capitalism armed to the teeth. There is no viable administrative position to the right of that. that is the centre right, not the center left. America needs a center-left, Social Democratic Party. A reconstruction of the parties has to occupy most of the next few years -- up through the two elections after the 2030 census and redistricting. For the moment the only challenge is getting a return to reasonably normal politics. That is what Biden represents, and the majority of Americans know it.
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