Looking at the comments most here don't think undecided voters exist, but assuming they do there are plenty of people that don't like Trump personally but like his policies. Chris sees the possibility of Harris explaining her policies as an advantage for her, but you could also make the argument she is unable or unwilling to explain her …
Looking at the comments most here don't think undecided voters exist, but assuming they do there are plenty of people that don't like Trump personally but like his policies. Chris sees the possibility of Harris explaining her policies as an advantage for her, but you could also make the argument she is unable or unwilling to explain her policies in a positive way. This basically gives voters an excuse to vote for Trump.
Peggy Noonan wrote an article describing the race as Awful vs Empty. I don't know that it's necessarily better to be either. With Harris voters will fill in that emptiness with their own opinions which might be positive or negative.
Peggy Noonan’s take is just silly. Trump is offering all sorts of crazy promises that are impractical and hollow: IVF for all, re-instituting the SALT deduction that he cut last time. It’s pandering and half-assed. And his tariffs would spur more inflation. It’s nonsense to say Harris is “empty.” She’s advanced serious, well-thought out proposals re immigration, taxes, and tax credits to help parents and the middle class. People who say she hasn’t been substantive are disingenuous or too lazy to read.
Trump has three major policy groups that appeal to voters: 1) low taxes and low inflation; 2) repeal of Roe v Wade and associated "anti-woke" cultural issues and 3) control of the southern border. Merely because you (or I) disagree with these policies doesn't make them non-existent. 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020 and he may well be our next President. The agenda is real, effective and obvious to anyone outside of the deep blue echo chamber.
Trump was one of the most unproductive Presidents in our history. Your policy list is unserious.
1) Republicans generally do cut taxes and then say we can't afford public benefits. It's a formula for massive deficits which is unserious.
Low inflation isn't a policy. Tax cuts, tariffs and mass deportations are all inflationary policies.
2) Even Trump has backed away from outright bans on abortion. He flip flops.
Woke is made up BS as far as I can tell. It isn't policy. Democrats do support letting people live their own lives as they choose. I think that's less government and more freedom. Love thy Neighbor!
What is anti-woke? Lying about legal immigrants and causing threats in Springfield? Calling women without children Cat Ladies? Saying you hate Taylor Swift? Targeting trans kids? Targeting teachers and librarians?
3) Trump didn't fix border issues. Mexico didn't pay for the wall. Trump immorally separated families and then incompetently couldn't put them back together. Obama had less crossings his last 3 years than Trump. Legislation is how we try to fix things, especially bipartisan legislation. Biden/Harris did that. Trump had it blocked.
Biden/Harris also worked on fixing the problem at the source, not building a wall and pretending the problem doesn't exist.
Since 1989, 50M jobs created under Democrats and 1M under Republicans!
In your bubble, you need to overlook a lot of awful shit. Hundreds of thousands needlessly dead from Covid. Overthrowing a legally certified election is just fine. Stealing government documents is just fine. Supporting a felon for President is just fine. Supporting a self-admitted sexual predator and adjudicated rapist is just fine. Calling the fallen "suckers" and "losers" is just fine. Desecrating Arlington is just fine. Siding with Putin against America is just fine. Will you lovingly remember J6 forever?
The economy was in a tourniquet during the COVID shutdown. Anyone in the White House when the tourniquet was removed in 2021/2022 would have had high inflation. Look at what happened when the domestic economy came out of its last total stall, at the end of World War II: inflation hit 18% then, twice the rate of Biden's worst month. And Trump would have experienced the same 9% or so as Biden.
Former Pres. Trump also wants to expand the child tax credit. VP Harris has brilliant ideas that she just couldn’t ever convince her former boss to implement, but when she takes over she’ll really do it.
"Empty" will not include a mob storming the Capitol. "Empty" will not be empty of resistance to Putin unlike Awful. Empty will stand for health care and for women's medical rights, Awful will not. You and Peggy Noonan cannot tell if that "Empty" is or isn't better than Awful? Because I could go on yet a long time with more, these are just the highlights.
Looking at the comments most here don't think undecided voters exist, but assuming they do there are plenty of people that don't like Trump personally but like his policies. Chris sees the possibility of Harris explaining her policies as an advantage for her, but you could also make the argument she is unable or unwilling to explain her policies in a positive way. This basically gives voters an excuse to vote for Trump.
Peggy Noonan wrote an article describing the race as Awful vs Empty. I don't know that it's necessarily better to be either. With Harris voters will fill in that emptiness with their own opinions which might be positive or negative.
Peggy Noonan’s take is just silly. Trump is offering all sorts of crazy promises that are impractical and hollow: IVF for all, re-instituting the SALT deduction that he cut last time. It’s pandering and half-assed. And his tariffs would spur more inflation. It’s nonsense to say Harris is “empty.” She’s advanced serious, well-thought out proposals re immigration, taxes, and tax credits to help parents and the middle class. People who say she hasn’t been substantive are disingenuous or too lazy to read.
Trump has never had any real policies that I am aware of.
Harris has real policies with the child tax credit and affordable housing.
And she has already explained them. When has tRump *ever* explained his policies except to say “tariffs?”
Trump has three major policy groups that appeal to voters: 1) low taxes and low inflation; 2) repeal of Roe v Wade and associated "anti-woke" cultural issues and 3) control of the southern border. Merely because you (or I) disagree with these policies doesn't make them non-existent. 74 million people voted for Trump in 2020 and he may well be our next President. The agenda is real, effective and obvious to anyone outside of the deep blue echo chamber.
Trump was one of the most unproductive Presidents in our history. Your policy list is unserious.
1) Republicans generally do cut taxes and then say we can't afford public benefits. It's a formula for massive deficits which is unserious.
Low inflation isn't a policy. Tax cuts, tariffs and mass deportations are all inflationary policies.
2) Even Trump has backed away from outright bans on abortion. He flip flops.
Woke is made up BS as far as I can tell. It isn't policy. Democrats do support letting people live their own lives as they choose. I think that's less government and more freedom. Love thy Neighbor!
What is anti-woke? Lying about legal immigrants and causing threats in Springfield? Calling women without children Cat Ladies? Saying you hate Taylor Swift? Targeting trans kids? Targeting teachers and librarians?
3) Trump didn't fix border issues. Mexico didn't pay for the wall. Trump immorally separated families and then incompetently couldn't put them back together. Obama had less crossings his last 3 years than Trump. Legislation is how we try to fix things, especially bipartisan legislation. Biden/Harris did that. Trump had it blocked.
Biden/Harris also worked on fixing the problem at the source, not building a wall and pretending the problem doesn't exist.
Since 1989, 50M jobs created under Democrats and 1M under Republicans!
In your bubble, you need to overlook a lot of awful shit. Hundreds of thousands needlessly dead from Covid. Overthrowing a legally certified election is just fine. Stealing government documents is just fine. Supporting a felon for President is just fine. Supporting a self-admitted sexual predator and adjudicated rapist is just fine. Calling the fallen "suckers" and "losers" is just fine. Desecrating Arlington is just fine. Siding with Putin against America is just fine. Will you lovingly remember J6 forever?
Wow, Brad, excellent reply!!!
The economy was in a tourniquet during the COVID shutdown. Anyone in the White House when the tourniquet was removed in 2021/2022 would have had high inflation. Look at what happened when the domestic economy came out of its last total stall, at the end of World War II: inflation hit 18% then, twice the rate of Biden's worst month. And Trump would have experienced the same 9% or so as Biden.
Former Pres. Trump also wants to expand the child tax credit. VP Harris has brilliant ideas that she just couldn’t ever convince her former boss to implement, but when she takes over she’ll really do it.
Trump had a chance to support the child tax credit before. His Republican followers let it die.
"Empty" will not include a mob storming the Capitol. "Empty" will not be empty of resistance to Putin unlike Awful. Empty will stand for health care and for women's medical rights, Awful will not. You and Peggy Noonan cannot tell if that "Empty" is or isn't better than Awful? Because I could go on yet a long time with more, these are just the highlights.