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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, August 2, 2024

Cuts Both Ways

 The GOP was gleefully planning on running against Joe Biden's age and the general gestalt that is anti-incumbent. Since Harris replaced Biden ("very unfair! people are saying") they have been at a loss, opting instead for questioning Harris' race in a way that is of course...weird.

However, all that banging on about Biden's age is now coming back to haunt them, since Trump is now the one who is old as fuck.

It's not just the same line of reasoning they used against Biden, but Trump's age is making it so that he isn't even able to be who he was. Trump's entire schtick is being the alpha, the bully. But he's a weak, shriveled old has been.

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