David Frum tweet:

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The Republican plan to run against "figment of our imagination Antifa anarchist riot leader Joe Biden" lost because it kept bumping into actual Joe Biden

[Wounded Bear]

1. Well, as Stephen Colbert said...

[irisblue]

2. Frum running his mouth on Iran is way past ironic

[PatSeg]

3. I am always surprised to find

David Frum to be witty. Donald Trump has brought out the best in a lot of conservative republicans or former republicans. They are now free to be human.

[halfulglas]

4. I think some of them have surprised themselves.

[PatSeg]

7. Probably

It must be a really freeing experience not to just spout out scripted talking points.

[luvtheGWN]

6. David Frum is a Canadian, so...

...of course he has a sense of humour (and can be quite self-effacing too)!

His stepmom is my neighbour. She has a sense of humour too! And so do I.

Having said that, I'm delighted that Frum is not a dyed-in-the-wool conservative after all. He's smart, well-educated, and becoming wiser as the years go by.

[PatSeg]

8. That is really cool that his stepmom is your neighbor

I didn't realize that Frum was a Canadian. it appears he has dual citizenship.

Yes, he does seem to have become wiser.

[luvtheGWN]

10. David's mother was, for many years, the anchor

on CBC TV's nightly news. She died of chronic leukaemia and passed about 20 years ago. His dad was a dentist turned real estate developer. He remarried a long-time friend (my neighbour) and died about 6 or 7 years ago. His twin sister Linda is a Canadian Senator (conservative).

Our Conservatives tend to be moderates (although a few members espouse rightwing stuff like abortion and others consider themselves fiscal conservatives),and our Liberals are also moderates with a slight tendency towards the left. I think I prefer the relative boredom induced by our two main political parties

[PatSeg]

11. Yes, a lot of us here could use that kind of boredom!

Most of our republican politicians today really aren't conservatives anymore. They tend to be opportunistic politicians who will do and say whatever will win votes or they are radical, extremists. My parents were republicans and their party didn't resemble in any way what we see today. Like your conservatives, they were more moderate than their opponents. Of course, there were extremists like the John Birchers, but they were few in numbers and regarded as a joke.

It really started going downhill with Nixon and has only gotten worse over the years.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. It was a curious campaign, skewed by COVID

The two camps didn't actually engage that much. Biden had the luxury of an intense understanding of the opposition which was destroying itself. Biden could almost be said to have played a rope-a-dope strategy, so when he needed to engage, the debates, he hit hard. Trump defined himself, and then Biden confirmed it. Trump's attempts to define Biden were ridiculous. Antifa was a disconnect, "Sleepy Joe" was a fail, Ukraine Fake Dirt was well known by the summer. The first Democratic debate, where Trump camp dreamed up "Sleepy Joe" was a sleeper strategy, I still think Biden underplayed his hand to seek better opportunity going forward.

[David__77]

12. So does he think lifting sanctions would make Biden look like "antifa?"

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[Blue Owl]

13. K&R