[quote] And to the poster who said they could live with Nikki Haley, um fuck you. She is just Trump in a wig, DeSantis is just a younger Trump.
You are correct that DeSantis is a younger Trump. But you do not understand Nikki Haley.
Nikki Haley is not Trump in a wig. Nikki Haley is Bollywood Ronald Reagan. She is Mumbai Margaret Thatcher. That is what TPTB have been looking for ever since the 80s. Another Reagan. They tried to make W Bush one (and they would have been successful if he hadn't invaded Iraq. Bush had enormous popular support after 9/11.) The extremely cynical, Steve Bannon-wing of the GOP tried to brand Trump as a Reagan. That proved they did not actually understand Ronald Reagan.
What was Ronald Reagan? The iconic Hollywood liberal James Garner explained Ronald Reagan better than anyone ever has:
"Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president. I was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild when he was its president. My duties consisted of attending meetings and voting. The only thing I remember is that Ronnie never had an original thought and that we had to tell him what to say. That's no way to run a union, let alone a state or a country."
This is what they want. A friendly face for a plutocratic agenda. That's her.
We had a thread a few weeks ago where there was a poll asking who did the most damage to the Republican Party. The far and away clear winner was Ronald Reagan. We still live in Ronald Reagan's America. That's why Angels in America feels so fresh today, the world hasn't changed. Corporations are king, Russia is evil, a country from east Asia is a significant economic thread, inequality is everywhere. It's the eighties.
Blade Runner, released in 1982, was per Ridley Scott inspired by the elections of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. We are entering that world now. Out of control weather. Dystopian cities. Artificial intelligence. It's here.
So, much like we did in 1980 when a well-meaning but weak Democratic president was unable to correctly gauge how much the country disliked him, we will enter another era, under Haley, of destabilizing economic liberalization because Carter, um, Biden doesn't know when to exit stage left. And unfortunately, this time, there's no Ted Kennedy to warn us.