Reagan broke US laws. The US passed a law specifically prohibiting funding the Contras. Nixon’s war in Cambodia and Laos was illegal under US law as well. Nixon broke US laws negotiating with the North Vietnamese before the election. Maybe just foreign policy vs domestic, but still US laws.
This is the only silver lining to the story for me tbh. I’m not rustled at all by Biden soaking the first round of dirty tricks from Trump. Maybe it’ll even go so badly for Trump that it impedes his ability to do it next time.
And LOL at the ‘deep state’. The fact that DJT still draws breath is proof that there is no deep state and there never was one. Any real deep state would have held him down and injected him with heart attack juice sometime in 2017 when they realized that he couldn’t be controlled.
No, we wouldn’t be expected for Trump supporters to mind the racism/racist policies, that’s what they like! That fires them up, just like the illegal things he’s doing fire them up, they are largely fascists or deeply admire authoritarianism. It doesn’t matter what “missteps” Trump makes, as long as he keeps mashing those buttons. He doesnt spend his time worrying about avoiding nit picky bs imaging issues. Warren shouldn’t either. If she keeps preaching M4A and other things the left wants, none of us are going to care about a fucking dna test or some other minor thing that pundits will play up as a misstep just so they have something exciting to talk about.
The 2004 Ohio results were also extremely suspicious. It’s quite possible that Democrats have won every election since 1988, yet we are governed by the right-wing oligarchy.
Giving Fox News etc something to talk about that we both agree is a total irrelevance to her candidature is a significant mistake on her part if it makes it easy for the former to deflect away from the real issues and to portray her as somewhat fake.
People who religiously watch Fox aren’t voting for her anyway. It really makes no difference. And if she did nothing they’d make shit up and no one would fact check or question it.
Whether the Dems field a centrist or a progressive FoxNews will inevitably call the candidate a crazy socialist, reality doesn’t matter to them. Fortunately, they use it so much it’s like the boy who called wolf. Except the wolf is already here, in the guise of fascist washed up game show host that they’re responsible for letting into the henhouse.