Yeah, after listening to all of the speeches during the RNC, I can understand how some buy into the idea of this imaginary villain. It's not supported by reality, or previous precedent, but I don't think that's going to stop those who buy into this kind of rhetoric. What I don't underestimate is the fear incited by the "they're going to destroy the suburbs" rhetoric; I don't doubt that will strike a chord with some and motivate them to vote for him based on that alone.
It is disheartening that so many who support Trump, buy into the lies told at the RNC and buy the false narrative.
From an early age, my parents taught me critical thinking skills. When what someone tells you doesn't match up to what you observe with your own eyes and ears, they're lying. It seems the cult of Trump never learned those skills.
On thing the OP said is true, the title. "The Choices are Clear."
Yes they are. The choices are either Joe Biden, who besides being an infinitely better person than Donald Trump, has a long record of accomplishments, which included passage of key legislation, but also a history reaching over the aisle to the Republicans, and genuine compassion. Joe Biden and John McCain were friends, even though they disagreed over policy. Does Donald Trump have friends? He has transactional acquaintances -- people who associate with him to obtain something of value.
The other choice is Donald Trump, who we have been able to look closely at over nearly four years.
We see that he came into office promising to raise taxes on the wealthy but cut their taxes.
We see that he came into office promising to improve health care and only backed plans to make it far worse. His latest effort is to have the ACA declared unconstitutional, throwing millions off of coverage.
What we see is someone who hasn't grown into the presidency; who clearly never read the constitution (or maybe anything else) because he thinks "Article II gives me the power to do anything that I want." It, of course, doesn't. He doesn't understand checks and balances and doesn't understand separation of powers nor federalism -- that the federal government can't tell the states what to do. This used to be a concern of conservatives, but they sold out to the Party of Trump.
More frightening is his authoritarian and dictatorial tendencies that were in full display at the RNC -- a frightening glimpse of the ugly end of America, an authoritarian cult in full flower. He melded the state with himself as president. Using the White House as a venue for the convention is illegal but the would-be dictator ignores laws (the same way he ignored laws as a crooked businessman) that he doesn't like. We see it with him ignoring subpoenas and Acts of Congress and appropriations.
On governance, we witnessed a lack of attention to running a government. He spends most of his time watching Fox, playing golf and Tweeting insults. He's only had one crisis in four years and he faced it by ignoring its existence and undermining medical experts whose facts he didn't like.
We also see how he used his office with enriching himself and his family. Even though the federal government has nepotism laws, his daughter and son-in-law have offices in the White House, where they mix state business and their personal businesses. While the government is negotiating trade deals with China, his daughter is getting licenses granted her from China. We can only wonder how much the two are connected. We also see that Trump orders military aircraft to land in airfields near his properties, so that the crew have no choice but to overnight in his properties. We also witnessed him order the U.S. Ambassador to Britain to have the British move the British Open to his Scottish resort and fired him when he raised ethics concerns.
Yes, this is a clear choice and I still can't see how Trump has the support he does, knowing what we've seen. I guess the conned don't even realize they've been conned.
