Every term, you hear the same thing almost. This election will be the most impactful, pivotal (inject adjective of choice) ever, but this time around, it really will change the course of the United States in many ways, depending on who gets elected.
Co-founder of Third Way, a national think-tank that champions center-left ideas, Matt Bennett believes that this cycle, who is elected, will leave the nation either in danger or not. The closest time an election was pivotal was during the Civil War, 1865.
In a podcast titled The New Abnormal with Danielle Moodie, “I believe that if this election goes wrong – that if we return Donald Trump to power – we are going to live in a country that will become unrecognisable to us in very short order,” he said.
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He also spoke about the 1968 elections when Americans elected Nixon to power, saying that although Nixon was a bad president and a bad person, he does not hold a candle to Donald Trump in that respect because Donald Trump is much worse.
“I think a second Trump administration would make the Nixon administration look like he was Abraham Lincoln,” he said.
Bennett says the difference is that Trump now knows how “the levers of power work in the White House” and that he will appoint sycophants around him who will carry out his orders and fail to hold him accountable.
“I think most importantly, the sole emphasis that he places on having loyal lickspittle toadies around him, rather than people like General Mattis – that would be the true catastrophe,” he says.
According to the latest study by Pew Research Center, the state of the nation’s politics finds no single focal point for the public’s dissatisfaction. There is widespread criticism of the three branches of government, both political parties and political leaders and candidates for office.
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