The fact of the matter is that Biden has changed his position on this issue since the 1990s. Most Democrats (who are still Democrats) have too. When the now-infamous crime bill was first enacted back in 1994, the polls showed it was supported mainly by black people because violent crime really was a much more serious problem back then that was disproportionately affecting majority-black communities. Today it is widely recognized that that bill's emphasis on elevating punishments was a serious problem that has been applied in a racist way. There were also several other, earlier Republican-advanced crime bills over the '80s that moved the needle in the same direction and were really more consequential than the 1994 measure we always focus on. There today exists a broad consensus among Democrats, liberals, and progressives that the criminal justice system needs to be overhauled in a way that changes the main focus from punishment to rehabilitation, and which favors more accountability for police officers and whole departments.

ANYWAY, Biden has been inconsistent about whether there should now be funding cuts to police departments. It's clear that his first instinct is to resist that step, but that he is also under much pressure to go there to at least some degree. (He should.) Will there be funding cuts to police departments or simply decriminalizations of various non-violent offenses and moves to enhance restorative justice in the prison system under a President Joe Biden? It's tough to tell. That appears malleable at this moment. What is clear though is that under a President Biden, the needle will move in the general direction of reducing mass incarceration and increased regulation of policing.

The Trump campaign ads want to have it both ways at the same time. They at once want Joe Biden to still be where he was in 1994 and also several leaps beyond where he actually is today at the same time. (The title "Abolished" in the first video, as well as the general content, implies, ludicrously, that Biden actually favors abolishing police departments and just letting crime go unchecked by anything.) You can't have it both ways. Either Biden is surely going to impose a police state upon us or he's going to abolish the state in favor of social chaos. I pointed that out because it's ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as having to explain this right now. Sorry for having a sense of humor about it.

It's like I'm talking to the wall. Again: will a Joe Biden presidency literally end-of-civilization soft on crime or tough on crime or instead too tough on crime in a way that's racist? How is the contradictory nature of these simultaneous attacks flying over your head?

Yar, I do shallow digs at Trump. They're fun and ridiculously easy to do.

Anyway, this response just makes it abundantly clear to me that you would literally say ANYTHING to defend Trump regardless of how little sense it makes. You clearly don't care what he stands for or if he even stands for anything anymore.

I do expect that if the Republican party embraces Trumpism in the future even if Donald won't be reelected, then a number of Republican politicians of all levels will switch to either Democrats or Libertarian party out of spite or disgust. A couple already did, but if the trend of the party moving further and further to the right continues, I expect this to accelerate.

While I'm surprised to learn that you're not a Trump supporter, given the tone of these posts, I just don't see "the BS" here you're calling out.

Anyway, be assured that I will be me and have fun with this stuff! You cannot stop me with your lack of a sense of humor and inability to troll back!

Well, I didn't think I needed to elaborate that any similar type of politics was meant to be included in that statement.

I agree. This definitely isn't a sustainable path for the Republican Party. BUT I also look at Mike Garcia's 10-point victory in that special election that took place in California the other month and see a model for a post-Trump Republican resurgence that will, in fact, likely happen. Mike Garcia's victory shows that the keys to this Republican resurgence will be...

1) Moderation. Embracing more diverse sorts of candidates and moving back toward neoconservatism instead of the current diehard isolationist nationalism of the Trump brand. That's the only way for Republicans to win back the suburbs that they traditionally have won but are on a losing trajectory with now, under Trump. They can't keep thinking of rural Americans as the only people worth appealing to. And when it comes to candidate diversity, I'm not just talking about race diversity, incidentally. I'm telling you that there will likely be an underappreciated opportunity for Republicans to regain their footing among female voters under a Joe Biden-run White House because the fact of the matter is that the Democrats really will go too far along certain trajectories (like gender identity and maybe even prostitution and these ever so cutesy "Karen" statutes you're starting to see and so forth) for many women.

AND...

2) A New Generation. The Democrats have made inroads in recent years, particularly in those key suburban parts of the country (53% of Americans live in suburban areas, so this isn't some small subset of the population we're talking about!) in no small part owing to the freshness of the faces the Democrats have been able to offer up during the Trump era. Against entrenched politicians, the Democrats have often fielded just ordinary Americans from backgrounds like teacher, nurse, flight attendant, pilot, local TV news reporter, scientist, doctor, small business owner, etc. -- average professionals with no background in politics. Inevitably, that whole dynamic just simply has a populist vibe to it. Mike Garcia's large victory on the Republican side the other month in that special election was rooted in that same basic dynamic. After this fall, I expect that most office-holders in this country will be Democrats. That reality is going to force the Republicans to recruit a new generation of talent, and that will tend to feed into this populist vibe of ordinary people challenging established office-holders I'm talking about. The GOP needs a new generation that's more in-touch with ordinary people's priorities too. I mean when I looked at the headlines Thursday evening and saw that we just added a record 63,400 new coronavirus infections in a single day in this country on Thursday and set a new record daily death toll from covid here in my state of Texas (a Republican stronghold...in theory!) and then saw what Trump and Republican office-holders were tweeting about instead over that same day -- the need to "preserve our history" by keeping Confederate statues up and something about the NBA and China or something -- I couldn't help thinking to myself that it's kind of stunning how completely divorced from the thought processes and priorities of average people the Republican Party has become over the course of the Trump era. They're living in a completely different mental universe that has absolutely nothing to do with what average people are concerned about right now. Their party needs new candidates who are capable of figuring out what real problems are.

These things are likely to happen for the 2022 midterm elections. The truth is that the party of a president almost always loses seats in midterm elections; especially that first one. One can plausibly expect Biden to have a roughly six-month "honeymoon" period where he and the governing Democrats are more popular than not, but the ideological trajectory of things will likely have already begun to shift by the time that Biden assumes office. (This is all assuming Biden wins, obviously!) This is just how the cycle works, and the Republicans can screw it up by not doing the two things I just went through. They're gonna have to learn something from all the defeats of the Trump years to regain their footing. They probably will...in the short run...like for a couple of years...but we'll see!

He is a shit rapper that turned to christian music because he realized he can make more money off dumb fucking christians.

“The Republican Party has grown incredibly from when it was and we have a whole different group of people in the Republican Party,” Mr Trump said on Friday.

Yep right about that just the racist switched from democrats to republicans in 50s/60s



“Like people don’t remember, nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time, or they didn’t use it at least, I use it all the time: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. You know you say that and people say, ‘I didn’t know that’, but he was Republican, so we’re doing a great job.”

Nope just you and your dumbass voter base. Most people know history unlike you.

Yes he was. And I'm sure he's trying to kill himself in Afterlife every day when he sees where his party headed to.