Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 2 2020 02:39pm)

There is no threat of that now in the executive branch. Trump was one of t only presidents in history to shrink the size of the government.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 2 2020 02:48pm)

What metric(s) are you basing this on?

Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 2 2020 03:48pm)

What metric(s) are you basing this on?

Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 2 2020 02:50pm)

I guess the glaring one is there are no glaring controversies that werent addressed. Anyone that was corrupt got canned and then some more got canned too.

Centrally though population of the federal government per capita has fallen.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 2 2020 12:39pm)

There is no threat of that now in the executive branch. Trump was one of t only presidents in history to shrink the size of the government.

Its too late for that in many other places. You have cities with pink haired judges and police chiefs that cower to Democrat senators. You have schools with 90% far left wahmen teachers. Academia hollywood etc etc. All of the leadership positions in our culture have been seized and used as political assets by the left. The only way to reverse that is to put conservatives back into school media etc. in positions of power but how do you even go about doing that?

The other thing would be term limits in more government positions maybe. There are too many j edgar hoovers in the executive branch now.

Quote (thundercock @ Jul 2 2020 03:00pm)

I'm not opposed to larger government if it's more efficient. For instance, one could argue that increasing the size of Congressional staff could be incredibly beneficial because it would lower the impact of special interest groups. IMO, we should have a lean, healthy government. That means I don't want a fat, bloated government and I don't want a skeletal, overwhelmed government either. I imagine that this is agency specific though (i.e. HHS might be bloated but the Interior Dept might be skeletal).

For teaching, I actually think that Republicans have a golden opportunity. Going all in on education could shift suburban voters towards the GOP for generations. I don't think we can fix media though. Each side has their camps and that's that :-/

Quote (thundercock @ Jul 2 2020 03:00pm)

I'm not opposed to larger government if it's more efficient. For instance, one could argue that increasing the size of Congressional staff could be incredibly beneficial because it would lower the impact of special interest groups. IMO, we should have a lean, healthy government. That means I don't want a fat, bloated government and I don't want a skeletal, overwhelmed government either. I imagine that this is agency specific though (i.e. HHS might be bloated but the Interior Dept might be skeletal).

For teaching, I actually think that Republicans have a golden opportunity. Going all in on education could shift suburban voters towards the GOP for generations. I don't think we can fix media though. Each side has their camps and that's that :-/

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“You can try to paint him as a radical, but it’s not going to work,” Vilsack’s husband, former agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, said in an interview. “There may be a lot of reasons, both in terms of race and in terms of gender, that made Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton susceptible to that kind of stuff. Joe Biden is a white guy.”

That’s one theory for why Biden, despite two previous runs for president, has simply not churned up much voter anger. No recent Democratic nominee has entered the summer of a presidential election without a clear effort to portray them as dangerous. By this point in 2016, the conservative publisher Regnery was selling eight books about Hillary Clinton; by this point in 2012, it was selling 13 books about Barack Obama.

The publisher is offering just one book about this year’s nominee, the upcoming “The Biden Deception,” which asks whether Biden is a “crypto-socialist.” That’s it, and no other books critical of Biden, specifically, are being published right now. Dinesh D’Souza, who produced election-year books and documentaries about both Obama and Clinton, is now selling “The United States of Socialism,” in which Biden appears only a few times as a “socialist lite,” with more attention paid to the business dealings of Biden’s son Hunter and brother Jimmy than to Biden’s own record. Peter Schweizer, whose “Clinton Cash” and related 2016 articles provided ammo for the Trump campaign, dealt briefly with Biden in a book about “America's progressive elite.”

David Freddoso, a conservative journalist who published “The Case Against Barack Obama” for Regnery in August 2008, watched it hit the New York Times bestseller list, then published two more takedowns of the 44th president. He doubted that there would be as much interest in a similar Biden book.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2020/07/07/the-trailer-who-s-afraid-of-joe-biden/5f00a17d602ff1080719519b/?_=ddid-2-1594158300&fbclid=IwAR3MFmCFgLE0WwIN6sSENApWltolH0bIdwijqS4af-EWaMdqKXh-rKg3jvA



It's kind of hilarious in a way... as much as right-wingers pretend the Democrats are radical SJW socialists... they nominated a boring moderate white guy. He's not an easy guy to attack.