1. "Qualified lesbian." Ha, ha. But the odd part of the phrase is "qualified." Democratic elites have a funny ideas about what qualification means as politics.https://nypost.com/2018/03/20/christine-quinn-bashes-unqualified-lesbian-cynthia-nixon/ …
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5. I look at the case for Cynthia Nixon & argue that Dems need to rethink credentialism in politics:https://newrepublic.com/article/147588/democrats-elitist-obsession-qualifications …
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And Clinton was seen as a pandering politician who would say anything to get elected.
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Trump is a bad example. The problem isn't his competence (or lack thereof), the problem is is odious beliefs. Any incompetence is saving us from even worse effects.
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to make a competency argument, you'd have to look at like President Grant. By all accounts his heart was in the right place but he allowed the people around him to loot at will
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From Nixon in ‘60 to Gore in 2000, candidates touting their qualifications always win the hearts of the people
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Nah. They wanted jobs, the old good-paying industrial unionized jobs, and he said he’d give them to them. Not “values” per se. But yes, “elections are about the future”!
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Appreciate the "passim"
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Maybe it's because Dems believe in the power of government to DO things for peoples' benefit, so it's important to make it work. If your (Rep) values include devaluation of government, competence doesn't matter.
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Very well put.
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No. He *mirrored* them.
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