I dislike Harris and I think Biden definitely should not have ever been the candidate. But Trump as an option? That is scraping the very bottom of the barrel. ANYONE would have better than him.
The problem is that part of being a competent president is having an understanding of which policies or tactics are risky and unpopular, and avoiding those. Trump has zero ability to distinguish his own internal rambling monologue from reality. He blunders through guard rails more or less at random. Despite the fact that it harms his standing and makes it more difficult to enact his policies, it has also damaged our democracy, another thing he doesn’t understand.
You can see this dynamic immediately in Trump’s demands that the Senate
him to make recess appointments—in other words, without a Senate vote. “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner,” Trump bloviated on twitter. “Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!”
Republican senators and Republican courts try to cater to the nonsense whims of the ignorant, blundering asshole to whom they’ve sworn fealty.
There are lots of other examples, the most obvious, Trump acting to destroy our economy because he literally doesn’t understand how tariffs work or why they’re going to result in massive and unpopular inflation.
When a president doesn’t know or care how his party or the public will be affected or react to his actions, there’s little stopping him from taking actions which harm the party or the public. Again, this overreach can harm the president himself, which is why most president’s avoid taking unpopular or controversial actions when they don’t have to.
Its time!! 86/47