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In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Surely there are hundreds of thousands more suitable candidates. We always get the l

• chipdart 2y ago
  > In a country of 350 million, the only two selections are Trump and Biden? Trump is a baffling choice of candidate for how bad and utterly unsuited it was. Trump is a candidate who won an election thanks to a massive wave of foreign interference and, even though he was handed a nearly ideal set of circumstances, fumbled his term so hard that lost an election as the incumbent against a lackluster challenger. On top of that historical show of incompetence, who already earned him a the top spot in the ranking of most incompetent US presidents in US history, there's hi coup attempt to force the US into a fascist dictatorship which included plans to assassinate his own vice president along with other political rivals. If that is not enough, there is his criminal history and spiral into dementia. This is the best that the Republican Party managed to pick among it's ranks as their best and brightest. I'm convinced that the Democratic party only entertained the idea of pushing Biden due to a) being a sitting president and incumbent, who historically tends to ensure second terms, b) his outstanding tenure as president even though circumstances were far from ideal, c) and the high-stakes risk of allowing the US to succumb to the push for a fascist regime.