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Two things can be true at the same time

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She will most likely not be a great president, but could be a good one. If Biden wasn't so poor on the Middle East, he would have been a great one, from a policy perspective.
- Biden never was going to be a great president, lacking a a majority in both houses means you burn up too much political capital to get anything done that doesn't already have broad bipartisan support. And with how divided politics is today compared to any point in history where we had a great president, there is no such thing as bipartisan today.
  
  Yeah, passing the new deal in the McCarthy era was cake.
  
  ... The new deal was passed 10 years before the McCarthy era. FDR was dead before McCarthy even started his red scare.
  
  Do you live in an alternate timeline?
  
  I was being over broad. The first red scare was after WW1 and was a prominent feature of Republican politics from that point onwards. If you look into the resistance to the new deal, it was the same red scare nonsense that McCarthy rode as a wave.
  Did the Trump era start in 2016, or did he simply usurp a rising fascist current in American society? I personally think it's more of the latter than the former. Likewise with McCarthy, but it's fair that I was corrected.
- I’m fine with how Afghanistan went. The military would have dragged it out for another 10 years. I’d much rather have a suboptimal quick withdrawal.
  
  Nobody's arguing it was short-term better for the US. It abandoned to the wolves all of the people who worked with it in Afghanistan, though. And did that abruptly. Betrayals tend to have long-term consequences. Those who think they've seen a few betrayals go well without those, just have blind spots.
  
  Edit:
  ~~Did anyone die~~? A quick Google search shows yes. That's horrible. I've read several news sources on it but I'm wondering if you've found out the facts about that bombing? It's more digging than I have the time for right now.
  
  Yeah, actually. I agree that Biden handled the Afghanistan situation as well as anyone could. I guess I'd forgotten that with all of the things happening now.
- And supported labor better.
  
  And supported labor ~~better~~.
- Were there a normal option available to vote for, she'd be worse. But she's better than Trump because Trump is just an acceleration of the ongoing trash show, while she is said show going on as planned - she's the candidate from the folks who planned it, as in "establishment" and "big financial interest".
- Maybe she's just waiting for the election to be over before she disbands AIPAC and cuts ties with natenyahu?
  
  And then personally arrest Trump and abolish the Electoral College while smoking a fat blunt.

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