You’re right, but solving the immediate problem is a necessary precondition to solving the bigger, deeper problem. And we haven’t solved the immediate problem yet.
In 2020 I turned to my wife after reading some election coverage and said “If Biden wins this election, he’ll basically guarantee a Republican win in 2024. And it’ll be Trump or someone worse.”
Only thinking about getting rid of Trump, and not putting any thought to what comes after is exactly how America ended up in this situation. Dems had no plan because they thought they didn’t need one. They assumed they could just return to business as usual and everything would work out. And voters punished them for that hubris.
The sentiments Newsom is echoing today are the same sentiments I saw in 2020; this is just an anomaly, don’t worry about it, we’ll be back to our old selves any day now…
It’s not enough. Yes, getting rid of Trump is step one. But step one of parachuting is to jump out of a plane, and you should probably have figured out what step two is before you do that.
Blindly trusting that getting rid of Trump will solve all your problems is going to put you in even deeper shit very, very fast.
You’re right, but solving the immediate problem is a necessary precondition to solving the bigger, deeper problem. And we haven’t solved the immediate problem yet.
In 2020 I turned to my wife after reading some election coverage and said “If Biden wins this election, he’ll basically guarantee a Republican win in 2024. And it’ll be Trump or someone worse.”
Only thinking about getting rid of Trump, and not putting any thought to what comes after is exactly how America ended up in this situation. Dems had no plan because they thought they didn’t need one. They assumed they could just return to business as usual and everything would work out. And voters punished them for that hubris.
The sentiments Newsom is echoing today are the same sentiments I saw in 2020; this is just an anomaly, don’t worry about it, we’ll be back to our old selves any day now…
It’s not enough. Yes, getting rid of Trump is step one. But step one of parachuting is to jump out of a plane, and you should probably have figured out what step two is before you do that.
Blindly trusting that getting rid of Trump will solve all your problems is going to put you in even deeper shit very, very fast.