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orangecrush

(19,499 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 02:46 PM Nov 2020

Biden's defeat of Trump is the most important win since FDR



Supported by thousands of disturbingly supine Republican officeholders, one of the country's two great major parties was turned into an army of cowering enablers. Add to that FOX News, social media propaganda, and other news organizations that amplified the president's misleading statements, and Trump was able to assemble a powerful political culture free of facts. In short, Trump was willing to risk tearing the nation apart to win.



Yet Joe Biden still beat him. It is how Biden won that matters most.

Biden won by reasserting basic truth and appealing to the common sense and better angels of American nature. This makes Biden's win all the more remarkable. In his own words, Biden did it by emphasizing: "Unity over Division. Hope over Fear. Science over Fiction."

This appeal to truth, fairness and civility was no accident.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/campaign/524942-bidens-defeat-of-trump-is-the-most-important-win-since-fdr%3famp
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Biden's defeat of Trump is the most important win since FDR (Original Post) orangecrush Nov 2020 OP
K & R 50 Shades Of Blue Nov 2020 #1
.... orangecrush Nov 2020 #2
Agreed. CrispyQ Nov 2020 #3
We dodged a bullet. dalton99a Nov 2020 #4
It has that feeling. A despairing country electing someone who can finally make things better. Squinch Nov 2020 #5
We really did dodge a bullet in this election steve2470 Nov 2020 #6
Totally. nt Duppers Nov 2020 #7

CrispyQ

(36,441 posts)
3. Agreed.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 02:50 PM
Nov 2020

Having only the House would not have been enough to stave off the damage a second Trump term would have done.

Squinch

(50,934 posts)
5. It has that feeling. A despairing country electing someone who can finally make things better.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 02:53 PM
Nov 2020

FDR faced lots of Republican opposition. But even so, he made the world, and American lives, immeasurably better.

Biden will too.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
6. We really did dodge a bullet in this election
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 02:59 PM
Nov 2020

I am a devoted student of World War 2, so I know way too much about Hitler and his enablers. Trump was (and is) wayyyyyyyyyy too close to what Hitler represented (minus the obvious overt anti-semitism). Trump represented a slide towards what Hitler represented. Granted, Jewish people would not have been persecuted first, but immigrants and Muslims certainly were. Liberals and any other non-Trump supporters were next on the persecution list.

One day a very smart fascist will run for President. We need to be prepared. It might be Tom Cotton or Tucker Carlson. We have to fight him (or her) with any means necessary, even if we cringe at its moral meaning.

For reference, see this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1932_German_federal_election



As you can see, in the 1932 German election, Hitler won 37.27% of the popular vote. After this vote was over, Hitler manipulated his way to the chancellorship. He was never elected.

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