Yeah, I'm pretty sure this was one of the reasons why Obama won by such a large margin in 2008. McCain was pretty popular with most Republicans, but Palin was only loved by the fringe and far-right while the rest of the party couldn't really stomach her. And considering McCain's age and health, there was a big chance that he could die in office. So probably more than one republican went and voted against Palin in the election.

Looking at Biden's potential VP choices, I would choose Val Demings, as she seems to be the most progressive of the bunch.

Looks like there is a movement to unite the independent left under one party or at least one leadership. Howie Howard is all but guaranteed to win the ticket for the Green Party, and got also selected the Socialist Party USA as their nominee.

And if I would be american and live in a state where I could vote for him, I would do so.

Well, either Trump wins or America becomes a commie shithole in about ten years.

Hell even if Trump wins the US becoming a communist hellhole it's only delayed, we would need to figure how kill the commie cancer that has infiltrated every fucking institution in the country and the world for that matter.

I think they should implement ranked choice voting.  Doing so would would allow you to vote without throwing away your vote.  And, I'm fairly certain that an individual state could elect to do that on their own without the feds input.

Anything other than winner takes all would be an improvement for sure. Even just small baby steps like splitting up a state in several congressional districts would be very appreciated and more representative of the population ant their voting as a whole.

If that's the alternative to a dictatorship, then I'd gladly take the "communist shithole"

Seriously, the democrats would be considered center-right in Europe, with some of them even outright right-wingers. Even Bernie Sanders is just a social democrat at best.

Finally, many, many Americans tend to confuse the left-right axis with the libertarian-authoritarian axis. But I think this video would be better at explaining what I mean there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULYWIDcUOY4

Long story short: The US are lightyears away from communism, or even just some light social democracy for that matter.

Trump 2016: "You will get tired of winning!"
Trump 2020: "See?!"

I'm an American and I've been through a lot of these election cycles in my life. This feels like a Democratic year to me. I mean, matter-of-factly, it's been a Democratic year every year since Trump was elected. Trump won in 2016 on a legal technicality and his party hasn't stopped paying for it since.

-The 2017 off-year elections were a Democratic sweep.
-The 2018 midterm elections were a Democratic wave.
-The 2019 off-year elections were another Democratic upsurge.
-The generic ballots this year so far show a generic Democratic candidate ahead of a generic Republican for Congress by a margin of 8 percentage points, which is the same as in the 2018 midterm elections.
-Likewise, Trump himself is polling much further behind his Democratic challenger, Biden, than he was behind Hillary Clinton at this same point in the 2016 election. Specifically, in the current moving average of polls, he trails Biden by 8.1 percentage points, which is essentially identical to how far behind the rest of his party is polling compared to the Democrats, so he appears to be dragging his whole party down with him.
-Trump is losing the support of demographic groups that were key to his 2016 electoral victory. Namely, he's losing the support of older voters and of white working class women (people like me, in other words), in addition to more famously alienating the suburban middle class.

The Trump apologists remind me that the polls also show an enthusiasm gap favoring Trump. That works both ways though because they also show an enthusiasm gap against him, and the latter one is larger. In other words, people (including me) may not love Joe Biden, but it doesn't really matter because Trump doesn't need his challenger's help to lose this election; he's doing that all by himself. Every fault he can accuse Joe Biden of having is one that he himself self-evidently possesses in spades. There's nothing he can throw out that can't be thrown right back in his direction harder.

Most importantly though, where people were looking for reasons to vote for Trump in 2016, today they're looking for reasons to vote against him. And that vote is more unified around one candidate than it was at this same point in 2016. There's less demand for third party candidates this year as voters are clearly concentrating on the goal of defeating the current president.

None of this is to say that November will mark the end of the Republican Party by any means! To the contrary, if history is any guide on this, once a party is out of power, having lost a generation of elected public leaders, that forces said party to recruit a new generation of talent; a new generation more in-touch with the social situation on the ground and thus better able to navigate their party to victory. Inevitably, waves of fresh faces feel refreshing and populist in their own way. In other words, being out of power will likely touch off a renaissance of sorts for the Republican Party, if anything. Then the cycle will start again.

Those would be my observations at this stage.

Well, thrice, since I quoted him already with a rebuttal. (which makes this the forth time, hehehe). Also bolded and emphasized to make it clearer.

But I agree that this needed to be put on display. If a party who by international standards is center-right is considered communistic, I can't wait to see his reaction to any centrist or, gasp, center-left party from Europe. Heart attack over everything running fine and not into the ground like the US are doing for years now maybe?

@SpokenTruth : Maybe you want to add some links to the opinion polls aggregates? Got them right here for you:

270toWin: https://www.270towin.com/2020-polls-biden-trump/national/

RealClearPolitics: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html

Wikipedia mean value between the poll aggregates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election

Wikipedia also includes some older polls with other (at the time) potential candidates down the list.