The night the old man handed them their asses

[Nevilledog]

https://www.editorialboard.com/the-night-the-old-man-handed-them-their-asses/


I don’t want to hear anymore bollocks you-heard-me about the president being too old to reelect. If the man can walk, he can run, and he can do a lot more than walk. He can flip the way we understand ourselves in this country.

I exaggerate, some. Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last night reflected, in terms of policy and politics, a reversal of the last 40 years, a period beginning with Ronald Reagan and ending with Donald Trump. With a single speech, he swapped hot-rocks fascism for stone-cold liberalism.

That reversal will take time to finish, as the last reversal took time. America’s transition from demand-side economics to supply-side economics dragged on over several presidencies, only coming to completion with Bill Clinton. But make no mistake: that reversal, rooted in chaos and crisis, is well underway.

Everything the Republicans say they are for the working class is what this president has become. Trump said he stood for “the working man” while making it clear that “the working man” was white. Biden stands for “the working man,” but makes clear “the working man” is anyone who works.

For Trump, “real Americans” were straight, Christian and male.

For Biden, “real Americans” are real Americans.

*snip*

[underpants]

1. Great headline

Good read too

[pandr32]

2. Excellent post. TY.

I love that Biden said. “Capitalism without competition is not capitalism. It’s extortion. It’s exploitation.”

[crickets]

4. 👆 Agreed. It's true, and way past time somebody said it. nt

[pandr32]

5. We need to carry that water and repeat it often.

Thank you.

[Bristlecone]

8. 100 percent.

Was just going to post this very thing.

[erronis]

3. Great post. The line "For Trump, "real Americans" were straight, Christian and male."

is only part. They also had to be stupid and easily manipulated. Putin taught him well (or his handlers/operant training) worked well.

[Coventina]

6. Don't forget "white" as a requirement to be "real Americans" n/t

[Easterncedar]

7. Right on

Give him time to build his (dark) brand(on)!

[wnylib]

9. Foolish, insecure people who treat everything in life as

a do or die fight that they must win at all costs always underestimate nice guys because they think that nice is weakness. But nice has its own strengths and wit.

[Blue Owl]

10. K&R