^^Sorry, but it's those kinds of holier than thou virtue signaling attitudes which helped make the race so tight.
I agree with KingJohn. If it weren't for Covid he would have won even with his obnoxious personality and stupid rants. The irony is that Biden was, at least in the beginning, worse. He said blocking travel from China was zenophobia and wearing masks wasn't necessary. Let's not forget all the New York politicians who said go out to the block parties; this is all scare mongering.
The point is that when you're obnoxious and have no control of your id and just say the first thing that comes to mind, you're going to get in trouble. It doesn't help when 90% of the media acts like they're the press agency for the Democrat party.
If left leaning people keep talking the way they're talking, and pursue the kind of policies pushed by the "progressives", the next populist to arise will be smarter and, as some Democrats realize, they'll get massacred in 2022 and 2024. Hell, if they just tank the economy they'll get massacred. The great "middle" of the country has had enough. They just need a better spokesman.
You have to learn from your mistakes, no matter which party you represent.
As for the legal redress. I'm always consistent. I wanted the votes examined in Gore v Bush, and I want them examined now. Anyone who thinks there's no corruption in Democrat machine ruled inner cities is either lying or incredibly stupid.
Now I'll let the courts speak; I've said all I have to say.
So all the Pub run counties and states are above reproach? and all the Dem population centers are corrupt? Give me a break.
I have voted for both Bushes so I have some credibility. But I would never, ever vote for somebody like Trump and I agree with some of his policies. Give me a genteel, reasonable, principled, qualified, experienced republican president or governor and I will vote for him. Give me somebody like Trump and I would not. BTW, I did not think that Obama was qualified. I did not think he had enough experience.
The "outsider" experiment needs never to be visited again. The government cannot be run like a business. We need people that have been raised to a life of service. Let them serve our country in the military forces for a while. Let them run for mayor or state representative then let them run for governor or US Senator. Let them serve there for couple of turns. They will learn how to weigh one side against the other and meet in the middle. The last thing we need is another head of a family run business that have nobody to check them.
As you saw above, I hope that the middle from both parties come together and unite and shed the extreme right and the extreme left.
BTW all this division is nothing new. There has always been tension between the urban centers and the rural towns and the populous states and the less populous ones. It even existed when the constitution was written. That's why we have the Senate and that's why in the beginning the president was not elected directly by the people but by the legislatures of the states. The founders had a healthy fear of the hoi polloi and for good reason.
Now for all that believe that our constitution is perfect and it should never be changed I think that there are some things that we can do to improve it. Here are some ideas:
1. Limit the power of the president. Now some of that is because the Congress has abdicated some of their power to the executive. We need to claw it back
2. Elect the president by direct popular vote. Every other office is by direct vote
3. Supreme Court justices are rotated every 8 years among the appeals court justices
4. Fed Appeals court justices should have a term limit (20 years?) and should be selected among the practicing district judges
5. District judges should be appointed among state judges that have some experience at the circuit judge level. Basically I am trying to prevent some 30 yr old to be nominated for the federal district court because of his political pull
6. The rules guiding the approval and consent of the Senate has to be revamped. The Senate has way too much power in that process.
7. I would also like smaller government but I am not a fanatic about it. If the people want and need the services that the federal government provides than we should try and distribute those services to the states with federal funding. DC is just too big. I want the fed government to be an enabler for those services.