{"id":286,"date":"2020-10-28T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/?p=286"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:02:18","slug":"election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srref.net\/archive\/2020\/10\/28\/election\/","title":{"rendered":"Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After four years of debate about the possibility of foreign interference in the 2020 election and how to counter such disruptions, Mr. Trump\u2019s comments were a stark reminder that the most direct threat to the electoral process now comes from the president of the United States himself. His unwillingness to say he would abide<\/a> by the result, and his disinformation<\/a> campaign about the integrity of the American electoral system, went beyond anything President Vladimir V. Putin could have imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if it’s not just Trump – it is the people who enable and defend him, a cabal aiming at power. The elite clinging to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

another column: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever they may say, they weren\u2019t concerned about the cost. Republicans didn\u2019t worry about budget deficits when they rammed through a $2 trillion tax cut for corporations and the wealthy. They only pose as deficit hawks when trying to block spending that might help ordinary Americans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, what this is really about is the modern G.O.P.\u2019s plutocratic agenda. McConnell and, as far as I can tell, every member of his caucus are completely committed to cutting taxes on the rich and aid to the poor and middle class. Other than March\u2019s CARES Act, which Republicans passed only because they were panicking over a plunging stock market, it\u2019s hard to think of any major G.O.P.-approved fiscal legislation in the past two decades that didn\u2019t redistribute income upward.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico – BY\u202fDAVID SIDERS
With help from Renuka Rayasam\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DO YOU HAVE TO LET IT LINGER?Democratic insiders are surprisingly cheerless for a presidential election in which Joe Biden has a large lead in public opinion polls and an edge in early voting. He could win in a landslide. Even as the prospect of a post-Trump world becomes plausible to many Democrats, they are seeing reminders everywhere that President Donald Trump\u2019s impact on the country will be enduring.\u202f
Whether he is defeated\u202fin 11 days\u202for leaves office in four years,\u202fTrump and Trumpism will still be with us, for decades to come.
The most obvious sign of that is the Senate\u2019s all but certain confirmation Monday of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 Trump\u2019s third justice.
But it\u2019s way more than a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court.\u202fDemocrats complain about the lasting effects of ignoring climate change for four years. They say the nation\u2019s\u202fimage abroad has eroded\u202f, as has confidence in democracy at home. For the duration of his presidency, Trump has insisted elections are \u201crigged.\u201d No surprise,\u202fmany voters aren\u2019t confident\u202fthat American elections are conducted in a fair and equal way.\u202f
After watching the chaotic presidential debate three weeks ago, the teenage son of Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota\u2019s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, asked Martin how he could stomach a life in politics, his chosen profession.
\u201cIt\u2019s just sad, sad all around,\u201d Martin said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be living with Donald Trump\u2019s impact on politics for the next couple of generations.\u201d He went on to say: \u201cMy concern here, win or lose, is that we have essentially changed the norms of politics to a place where you don\u2019t have civil discourse anymore. The idea of working together just becomes so far off in the distance that how does anything get done in government anymore?\u201d
For Democrats who feel like they are on the cusp of victory in\u202fthis\u202felection, there is a sense of grief\u202ffor what they have already lost.
Former Rep. Brad Ashford, of Nebraska, worries, he said, about people in their 20s and 30s \u2013 his daughter\u2019s age \u2013 who are \u201cso upset with everything going on\u201d they\u2019ve \u201csort of given up on the whole institution of representative democracy.\u201d
Former Rep. Tony Coelho, who was chairman of Al Gore\u2019s 2000 presidential campaign, said he was concerned about the effect of Trump on young people, too. Even if Trump goes, Coelho said, \u201cWe will not put hate back in the bottle for at least a couple of decades, because there are a lot of young people today who think that hate is okay.\u201d
No one involved in campaigns can ever say the one they\u2019re working on is not the most important one yet. \u201cMost important election of our lifetimes\u201d conveys hope, but it\u2019s also a coping mechanism for politicians\u2019 and campaign workers\u2019 own life choices and a morale booster for the people they are trying to inspire.
This year, voters seem to agree with the clich\u00e9.\u202fAccording to a new\u202fGallup Poll\u202f, more than three-quarters of registered voters say the outcome of this election matters more to them than in previous years, a record level dating back to 1996, when Gallup first asked the question.
But no matter who wins, Coelho said, America is no longer Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201cshining city upon a hill.\u201d
\u201cThe question is how long will it take to get it back,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it takes a decade to turn all this stuff around in the best of circumstances. But it probably will take longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After four years of debate about the possibility of foreign interference in the 2020 election and how to counter such disruptions, Mr. Trump\u2019s comments were a stark reminder that the most direct threat to the<\/p>\n

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