Steve Schmidt: 'Want to Advance Politically? All You Need is Anger, Rage & Stupidity!'

Source:The Warning With Steve Schmidt talking about the king of the reality TV scumbags, Donald J. Trump.

"At a recent Trump rally, the crowd erupted into "Send Them Back" chants. Steve Schmidt poses a question: when does that chant become more violent? And will Donald Trump act on those words if he's re-elected? He has told us he will. "Scumbaggery is his rocket fuel" and all you need is anger, rage, and stupidity if you want to advance politically." 

From The Warning With Steve Schmidt

I don't want to make this sound like this a pro-Joe Biden post. I think you already know who The New Democrat is endorsing and who we're going to vote for in November, if you follow this blog. But there's one point here where I disagree with Steve Schmidt on and it's not a small one. 

If you ask the average Independent voter about the choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump and what they think about that choice, not who they're going to vote for, but what they think about that option, they don't like it. As I talked about on Tuesday: 

"But picking the next President of the United States is not like shopping around for a car or a house. It's more like picking a meal on an airplane. (Hopefully in 1st class) It's generally a choice between 2 people who can actually win the election in America. And it's generally not about who you like more. But in many cases do you even like 1 of the choices or none of them. Or, maybe you just dislike 1 of the choices more than the other." 

From The New Democrat

I can see why Independents might think this is a horrible choice. You have a convicted felon and career conman, running against someone who at times might seem like he needs to be a seniors home and in bed most of the day. And of course Independents don't like inflation and 7% interest rates either. I'm just talking about how Independents perhaps see these two candidates and their options right now. But that's not what's going on here. 

What's going on here is a choice between a 34 time convicted felon, a career conman, someone with the personality of a 2nd world dictator, versus someone whose served his country for the last 55 years, who was financially the poorest member of Congress in his 36 years as a U.S. Senator. But only because he didn't spend most of his time writing books and playing the market with insider information, or got a huge inheritance from his father, but because he was in Congress for a long time just doing his job. 

This is not a good choice. But not because you have two bad candidates. It's not a good choice because the choice is so clear and obvious about who should win this election. Joe Biden should win by 10-15 points in the popular vote and not just win the rustbelt states that he has to have, as well as Georgia and Arizona, but North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio, as well. If this was simply about who is better suited to be President of the United States: the career public servant, or the career conman/reality TV personality, whose lived off the Manhattan tabloids for most of his career.

As far as Steve Schmidt's point about anger, rage, stupidity, and scumbaggery: This is what happens when reality TV and I would add tabloid culture and tabloid pop culture, not just meet American politics and government, but actually get into government with real positions of power. 

Independent voters despite Donald Trump's background as a reality TV star and entertainer, his narcissism, thought he was worth the risk in 2016. But now they've seen the consequences of taking that risk when he was President of the United States and everything we've had to live with as a country since he became President in 2017. 

And now I think American voters simply want to go back to a time when leaders led and served the people. That's what Joe Biden has going for him, that's his best political play here. He's not in it for himself. (To paraphrase the Biden Campaign) He just wants to serve his country and protect it from the people who would take over the American government just to serve themselves. 

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