As I keep saying if Mitch McConnell and the rest of the republican senate had done the right thing and convicted Trump after January 6th we wouldn’t have to worry about either Trump or Biden being candidates this time around. The only reason Biden is the candidate is because we’re all terrified of the idea that a criminal like Trump being reelected.
Originally Posted by txdot-guy
I’m terrified of Biden, if he’s re-elected AND Democrats control the House and the Senate. Without Sinema and Manchin, taxes and spending would go up, and our domestic oil and gas industry may be placed on the road to extinction. Still I can’t see myself voting for Trump. I wish the Republican Party had cut him out like the cancer that he is. Yes I wish McConnell and especially McCarthy had shown more backbone, along with the rest. Why people like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham would support him is beyond me. If someone claimed my father were involved in the assassination of JFK and my wife were an ugly whore he’d be a life long enemy. If Trump were out of the picture, Republicans would be in a much stronger position come November.
But it is what it is. I don’t subscribe to the belief that Republican politicians are inherently pro-Authoritarian, any more than Democrats, or that Trump would rule as an authoritarian. On the basis of the policies they support, I’d prefer Trump. In the unlikely event he wins, it won’t be the end of the world.