{"id":4165,"date":"2019-04-25T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2019-04-27T08:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:29:42","slug":"biden-looks-like-a-horrible-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Biden Looks Like a Horrible Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

If his 3-minute campaign kickoff video<\/a> is any indication, Biden looks like a disaster in the making. I am serious. Just consider:<\/p>\n

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  1. He’s apparently trying to run as the Not Trump candidate. There is no other message<\/em> in that video. None.<\/li>\n
  2. Hillary ran as the Not Trump candidate\u2014and lost to Trump.<\/li>\n
  3. A variety of Italians ran as the Not Berlusconi candidate when Berlusconi was PM\u2014and lost<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. A variety of Venezuelans ran as the Not Ch\u00e1vez candidate\u2014and lost<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. An opposition victory only happened in Venezuela when the opposition ran as something more than<\/em> just the Not the Current Guy in Power candidate.<\/li>\n
  6. By then it was too late; opposition control of congress did not matter because Venezuela was already a dictatorship.<\/li>\n
  7. The opposition never managed to win an election on their own in Italy; the E.U. forced Berlusconi out by threatening to not bail out Italy’s debts unless he resigned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Be very careful, Democrats: this is not a test, and the consequences of getting this one wrong could be truly dire.<\/p>\n

    Update:<\/strong> I’ve taken a look at his campaign web site<\/a>, and it’s better than his kickoff speech led me to believe it was (it’s not nearly<\/em> so Trump-obsessed, and it mentions stuff about “rebuilding the middle class”). Yes, the latter isn’t terribly class-conscious, but dream on: you never were going to get that from Mr. Establishment in the first place. At least he’s putting forth positive<\/em> reasons to vote for<\/em> him. The question is, can he stay on that message, or will he continue to be Trump-obsessed in his speeches to the point of distracting from it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If his 3-minute campaign kickoff video is any indication, Biden looks like a disaster in the making. I am serious. Just consider: He’s apparently trying to run as the Not Trump candidate. There is no other message in that video. None. Hillary ran as the Not Trump candidate\u2014and lost to Trump. A variety of Italians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}