re: #334 CarolJ

We have some real advantages this time. Trump is going to be Trump, incompetent and insane. He’s incapable clearly of doing anything that could turn this around, and the time to do so is quickly running out anyway.

Corona is an opponent that can’t be dealt with by his usual bag of tricks, either. Nothing will convince people not already convinced by him about what’s going on. He can’t bully it, bribe it, frighten it. The solution requires patience, science, and some self-sacrifice, and none of these qualities he has, and none of the people he works with have those qualities either.

We have disadvantages we didn’t face in 2016 as well. The opponent can spin up an hour of free live TV on a moment’s notice. He can fly to pseudo-official campaign events at our expense, and no one is at all concerned that he uses the federal workforce as apparatchiks and props.

It is always cheaper and easier to prevent an incumbent than to dislodge one.