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Chanie's avatar

Maybe I'm unlike your other commenters in that I don't dislike Andrew's writing and typically find his pieces insightful or at least thought provoking. But when it comes to Trump and the election in November he most often sounds like a battered spouse imploring his children to behave better so father doesn't get drunk and beat them again. The far left has so thoroughly infected every institution that the Democrats and the media are barely recognizable to moderates and centrists any more. This has been a long time coming, long before Trump. But rather than stamping it out, Andrew advocates appeasement. Far from returning us to the center, a Biden election will cement the extreme left. Trump is a hard guy to vote for, but anything -- even Trump -- is better than voting for today's version of the Democrats.

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Grand Moff Tarkin's avatar

I like some of Sullivan's points; I dislike others. He is not always consistent. So what? He's just human.

I think a Biden/Democrat landslide (taking the senate too) would be a disaster. The Dems are already talking about how much they want to do. They will run riot for 2 years then get pasted in 2022 (maybe losing the House but probably not the Senate).

My fear is that the Dems could go beyond granting amnesty...they could allow non-citizens the ability to vote in Federal elections. That was legal in the past; they don't need to pack the Supreme Court for that. But some of their other likely actions will need an activist court to survive. They could mandate easy voter registration and outlaw purging voter registration lists. They could mandate ballot harvesting. They could pass laws to restrict political activities and fund raising by disfavored groups (and rely on the establishment bureaucracy to ignore violations by Dem groups). If they succeed, they will turn the US into a one party state.

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