Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden says he won’t be “as polite this time” when he faces fellow Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate and Senator Kamala Harris (D, CA) in the Tuesday-Wednesday Party primary debates.
So, what’s he going to do? Take Harris out behind the gym? Or just challenger her to a push-up contest?
…is ad hominem attacks of the most despicable kind.
Here’s Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Robert Francis O’Rourke:
Yes, President Trump is a racist. What we saw in North Carolina last week was almost an impromptu Nuremberg rally.
Which means that not only is O’Rourke calling Trump a racist and a Nazi, he’s calling all those thousands of American rally-goers racists and Nazis, too.
Here’s Senator and Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Cory Booker (D, NJ):
The reality is this is a guy who is worse than a racist. He is actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gains, trying to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself.
Never mind his own sexist divisiveness during recent Senate Judiciary Committee Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Never mind the racist and anti-Semitic bigotry of Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY), Ilhan Omar (D, MN), Rashida Tlaib (D, MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D, MA). Never mind the studied divisiveness of ex-President Barack Obama (D) while he was in office. Booker is saying Trump and his supporters—the other side of Booker’s “divide”—are worse than racists.
Millions of us are racists, Nazis, worse than racists.
Notice another part of these candidates’ bigotry: they make no policy argument at all. All they’ve got are these smears, these projections of their own…flaws.
Notice yet another part of these candidates’ bigotry: the Progressive-Democratic Party extends the smears with all the rest of the candidates’ quiet acquiescence in these smears. But that’s entirely consistent with a Party that considers the Republican Party to be a Trump cult, that considers tens of millions of Americans irredeemably deplorable racists, homo- and Islamophobes, mysoginists.
Indeed, it appears that Progressive-Democrats consider any American, any group of Americans, who disagree with Party to be Evil incarnate.
Cenk Uygur thinks we all should just meekly acquiesce to what four first-year House Progressive-Democrats tell us to do. First, he says
Nearly everyone in Washington seems to assume that progressives should shut up, accept their place, and unify around the status quo. Think about what an arrogant and preposterous request that is.
Then he says
We signed up to rout him [President Donald Trump] and send him home. If you’re not on board with that, get out of the way and let us do it.
Wow. Think about what an arrogant and preposterous request that is.
Then he had a long screed about how “voters” wanted us to do things his way because his four folks in particular got themselves elected. Out of 235 Progressive-Democrats in the House.
Talk about oblivious. But this is the self-absorbedly arrogant, do it our way and the rest of America just shut up, government we’ll have if the Progressive-Democratic Party gets majorities in the House and Senate and control of the White House.
It seems the RNC raised a ton more money in June than did the DNC.
The Democratic National Committee raised $8.5 million in June, the month of the party’s presidential debates in Miami—less than half of the $20.7 million the Republican National Committee pulled in during that time period, new disclosures show.
I’d be cautious about reading much into that, though. For one thing, it’s a one-month snapshot, and the fund-raising season will last into the fall of 2020 (I suspect money raised after September won’t mean much).
More importantly, though, the situations between parties are different at this point in the campaign. Progressive-Democrats are spreading their campaign donations among the DNC and forty-leven Presidential candidates. Republicans, on the other hand, are more concentrated: the RNC and one candidate.
A more telling statistic is accumulated cash on hand:
The DNC…finished the month with $9.3 million cash on hand. The RNC is meanwhile building a larger war chest during the lead-up to 2020 and had $43.5 million cash on hand at the end of the month.
However, this also is subject to the caveat about the number of candidates also collecting party-favoring donations.
It’d be more instructive to see the numbers for all the candidates and national committees aggregated by party.
Last Thursday, Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden laid out his foreign policy paradigm. The gist of his policy is this:
[The] overarching purpose of our foreign policy, I believe, must be to defend and advance our security, prosperity, and democratic values that the United States stands for.
And
I would remind the world that we are the United States of America and we do not coddle dictators. The United States of America gives hate no safe harbor.
And he’ll
make it my mission to restore American leadership….
In fine, Biden’s foreign policy is to Make America Great Again.