My hungover, armchair, fuck-filled, I-sorta-pay-attention-to-this-shit-but-have-tuned-out-to-preserve-my-sanity take on this, so far:
1) Democrats are fuckin dumb. I have watched them, for the majority of 2020, go back to the same poisoned well they drank from in 2016 to build their campaign playbook. We're seeing it backfire a second time, what a goddamn surprise. First, they whittled a dynamic field of candidates to arguably the most boring, uninspired, milquetoast, past-his-prime, been in politics for 20% of America's short history candidate... then shoved him down our throats... again.
2) Then, taking another page from 2016's Playbook of Failure, they spend most of 2020 planting flag after flag on the moral high ground, assuming they own the goddamn thing. They assumed this would be enough to snatch a swift victory from voters exhausted by Trump. Of course, those same voters are exhausted by the left's constant and unending moral superiority complex, their flirtations with "socialism", their SNL skits and Daily Show rants. Plus voters are scared by the fact that the left has been portrayed as being OK with and empathetic toward large swaths of America literally being on fire, being looted, and running rampant with unchecked gun violence. So the vote for Trump is a vote driven by fear and probably a considerable amount of spite.
2) Any news anchor or correspondent who is scratching their head right now and saying, "But... the polls!" should be run out of town on a rail. No fuckin shit the polls. The polls were a train wreck in 2016, so why are you still paying attention to the 538 when they haven't done anything to address their failed methodology? Why does the 538 even have a website right now? Fuckin idiots.
3) Basement Biden was a mistake... for all the "Look at Joe leading by example through the pandemic!", he should have been out there going toe to toe and matching Trump's intensity instead of assuming his intensity would blow up in his face.
4) The impeachment was a huge blunder for the Democrats. Not saying it wasn't justified, but you don't bring a whiffle ball bat to the plate in a major league game. Fuckin dumb. AND they looked rushed because they were trying to blast through it quickly so all their precious senators running for the Dem nomination could be out on the campaign trail getting ready to lose to Biden instead of being tied up in a messy impeachment. Donald has literally escaped unscathed from every scandal and charge ever leveled against him... he is a man who has never been held accountable for anything... so how could the Dems be so stupid as to think they could build the world's flimsiest case against him and expect it to stick? What the fuck were they thinking? If impeachment is so serious and is such a big deal, then maybe you should look like you're taking it seriously? Fuckin idiots.
5) And of course... how can Dems take the moral high ground on the pandemic, claiming Trump slept on it or underplayed it January through March? The fuckin balls of these people, I swear. While Trump was waving his hands magically saying it would "just go away", the Dems were bogging us down with impeachment instead of preparing us for... whatever the fuck we're living in right now. So... if the pandemic is as bad as you want us to believe, then why didn't they drop everything and make it their top priority instead of trying to score political points against Trump? Oh, that's right... it was an election year.
I dunno... I'm sure I'll think of more ways to dunk on the Dems over the next few months. I know "it's not over", but I've been saying for weeks that unless Biden pulls out a landslide victory, then it's kinda over already. Trump has already put his hands on the reins in terms of steering national dialogue and the national dialogue seems to be the thing that matters anymore these days... not what the pesky laws are or whatever.
Glad I've been mentally preparing for Trump 2.0 for the last 3 months. I have no illusions that a Biden presidency would be anything remarkable or noteworthy, but was definitely hoping the volume on politics would get turned down in America after yesterday... not surprised that it won't, though.
