Reply #18: yes, but for good reason: so those who will never stop hating him will start to like him [View All]

He has a foolhardy belief in himself as a transcendent leader who can cross the divide. They've punked him so thoroughly when they were on the run that they know they can run roughshod over him now that they're in a momentary position of initiative.

It's beyond idiotic. It's not even badly played tiddly-winks, and certainly not this vaunted chess.

We will have to see him ruin everything and have to listen to the vituperations of his acolytes that we were the ones who screwed up everything.

What the fuck do we owe this man? To his extremist partisans, he's the greatest entity ever, sweeping in on a tsunami of achievements. He's not. He's an appeasing legislator with a simplistic and old-fashioned tactic of getting elected: being on both sides of anything he can't avoid in the first place. He is the ultimate inside straight: somehow we're to believe that every ill-defined "good" will come from him, regardless of the blase record. We're dared and hectored into believing this cult of personality fantasy, and the action of the glad-handing socializing will trample what little there is of the left and drag the country farther to the right.

It will all be our fault. We just didn't believe. We just didn't hope enough. We dared to differ.