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Trump wants denuclearization talks with Russia and China, hopes for defense spending cuts (apnews.com)

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[–] dx1@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Americans are ruled by a politics of opposition. Anything Trump does, the opposite must be good. Anything Biden does, the opposite must be good. Nobody thinks about anything from scratch.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if that was the case, trump would be antizionist

[–] dx1@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, I'm talking about the electorate. As for the issues where the politicians have a bipartisan consensus, usually that's when the electorate starts making doublethink-style excuses to find a difference where there isn't one.