Primaries

~ Clarissa

I looked at the primary finalists, and it’s sad, folks. I’m very politicized but aside from DeSantis, I don’t know who these people are. Were they put on the stage for diversity reasons? Because they don’t have national name recognition for absolute sure. Most normies have no idea who DeSantis is, let alone the rest of them.

Where are people with executive experience? Governors, mayors? Yes, again, DeSantis, great. But where are the alternatives? DeSantis can’t win. Where is the alternative that can?

That Nikki Hayley person. God. If you want to run a woman, that’s fine but the woman can’t simultaneously be a diversity candidate. Democrats played this game with Kamala Harris, and look what it is costing them. And they are Democrats. Their voters love diversity for its own sake. And even then it’s been impossible to sell Kamala to anybody.

The Tim Scott fellow. I’ve been following US politics maniacally for 20 years, and I have zero name recognition for him. The Ramaswamy guy, what is this, some sort of a joke? Yes, it’s possible to run a no-name candidate with a weird name and have him win. Obama, obviously, is an example. But to do it successfully, your candidate needs to be a powerful symbolic figure for a large constituency plus have a strong charismatic personality. It’s very hard to overcome zero recognizability in politics. It’s possible but hard. You need to have a personality that pops off a screen. You need somebody who can become a brand.

The fact that the field is enormously worse on the Democrat side is not an excuse. Democrats hold the press and the entertainment industry. They can afford to run duds. We can’t. We have nobody electable, and we are not even trying.

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  2. They’re all fighting for 2nd place. Trump seems to be the clear winner. DeSantis has run such a terrible campaign. He needs to be saying the kind of stuff that Ramaswamy (who’s a fraud imo) has been saying. There’s zero energy in his campaign for reasons I cannot understand. He’s been so competent as governor, he’s clearly smart, but withered as soon as he got the national spotlight put on him.

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  3. Nikki Hayley was governor of SC. Later she was ambassador to the UN. As Vivek pointed out chose businesses got sweet deals in the state while she was governor.

    Christie was gov of NJ

    Tim Scott is a senator of SC but I agree low name recognition, and he withdrew. He had a positive message and I liked his ideas about bringing manufacturing back (which was a trump idea too).

    Vivek reminds me of the “Fool” in Shakespeare plays. He says things no one else will say.

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  4. “primary finalists, and it’s sad”

    Well 2016 was supposed to be the beginning of a political realignment (like 1976 to 1980). Two possibilities (neither is very reassuring).

    first – the establishment has resisted this and clung on to power with all its might (across many countries) and this brings about degeneration and degradation of the political landscape.

    second – this is the new system which is based on (depending on the country) cemented the system of dictators for life (Erdogan, Lukashenka, putin, Netanyahu) or seen the rise of grasping hucksters who want to be dictators for life (Trudeau, Sanchez) or simple disintegration of the political class as its taken over by inertia, stagnation and incompetence (UK, US).

    What they all have in common is turning elections into simulacrums of democracy the result of which is either pre-determined or irrelevant.

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