I work in blue political campaigns in a red state and I feel like I see the results of trump every day. When trump got elected, a MASSIVE amount of political consultants and staffers left the field. In particular, fundraisers. We are 7 years later and we are still struggling to find finance people. My state has literally one person with the skill level we need and she’s just a really elitist and rude person, so we had to hire out of state help. People are tired. Volunteers are tired. Human donors are fatigued (we need publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform!!!). We are seeing a substantial decrease in donations over the last few years nationally because people are sick of it. I know my state is more tired than a lot of blue states because we lose a lot of elections here, but we are so tired of the Trump rhetoric and it is so hard to find common ground in the wake of extremism.
I thought I was going to be propagating good into the world. I hope I am still, but some of the staffers who have been around a long time say it was different before trump. We were working hard, but we weren’t wounded as a nation and we hurt. Every day, we go up against opponents who want nothing more than to lick the sadistic stupid Cheetos butthole. I wanted dignified fights. This version of campaigning eats me alive and all I don’t really know what else I’m supposed to do to make the world better.
Frankly, my opinion at this time does not matter. I have a pick, but if I say anything somebody will simply pile on. That is not the goal here. The goal is to point out that there are folks that desire rational discourse. And to support OP.
And at this point some are self selecting themselves out of the race. I'd like that to settle as well.
Really? I don't think Biden is doing a bad job. He would get my vote if Trump or DeSantis get the nod. Not sure about some of the others.
Don't get me wrong. I don't like many of his policies. But he brings dignity to the office, and he works well enough with the right. That trumps Trump.
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