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The Best Way to Defeat Donald Trump?
It doesn’t involve “vote blue no matter who.”
Probably since the day that Donald Trump was sworn in to office, the democratic party has stressed the importance of “resistance”, and ensuring that he does not get another four years in office. Since the 2016 election, even the most mild critiques of candidates or politicians in the democratic party online in particular will almost certainly be met with “so you’re voting for Trump then?”, or my personal favorite: “you’re just another Russian bot”.
To be fair, the presumptive democratic nominee Joe Biden has a better shot at winning this upcoming election than I ever would have imagined when he announced his candidacy well over a year ago. Not that he’s worked for any of it, but it seems to be that at least at this moment in time — thanks to Trump’s near unprecedented ability to bungle — Mr. Biden might even be considered the favorite come November. Over the past few weeks in particular, it appears as though consequences to Trump’s (in)actions throughout these devastating past few months might be catching up to him in the polls not just nationwide, but even more importantly in battleground states as well.
Polls conducted between June 8th and 18th by Siena Research Institute and The Upshot paint an incredibly grim picture for the current occupant of the…
