I’m curious what are the best reasons to be anti-Yang I don’t have much of a political opinion here—mostly I’m just stoked to see a socially adept Asian dude on TV who isn’t a super attractive actor/career entertainer
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The main qualm I’ve heard is that he’s politically inexperienced, which is true But I’m unsure if the complaint is that he’s incompetent/unable to manage the stress and complexity of the job— Or if it just means he doesn’t have the social capital necessary to pass legislation
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Wrt the competency question, it seems to me that Trump has demonstrated the govt will mostly keep running in spite of presidential incompetence (this is meant as a broad observation re:govt services and rule of law, not as an attempt to minimize the suffering of specific groups)
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And I just don’t know enough about legislative deal-making to verify the question about pre-existing institutional political capital
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He’s also got some wacky (by USA standards) economic policy, but again I’m not a wonk Even if I tried to process all the available information, I‘m not confident I could parse the noise or meaningfully assess how outlandish any candidate’s proposals actually are
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All the noisy media spin and ad hominem finger-pointing makes partisan politics especially exhausting for me to stay abreast of, not to mention my obvious lack of expertise in macroeconomics/global affairs So I usually (lazily) try to avoid ithttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1217650597660246016?s=21 …
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