We’ve got nothing but bad martinis today.  Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are frustrated by President Trump ordering the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, even as Turkey specifically says it wants us gone so it can attack our Kurdish allies who did more than anyone else in the region to confront ISIS.  Jim and Greg also swat away the NBA’s pathetic apology to China after the general manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted out that people should stand with Hong Kong.  And they groan as they see polls for the upcoming legislative races in Virginia looking very rough for Republicans.

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  1. kedavis Coolidge
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    3:32 PM EDT ⋅ Oct 16, 2019

    Lois Lane (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Lois Lane (View Comment):
    But speaking crass politics, I think you are naive if you think people will show up en masse purely because they hate the prospect of Democrats in the White House.

    They better. If they know what’s good – or less bad – for them.

    I don’t know if people are wired to be inspired to make an effort for “less bad” for them. At least you might have people like me who pay close attention to politics ultimately choose on my own narrow interests, but 2016 was obviously super close. I have no idea how it will turn out. I’M tired of it all, and I’ve volunteered on campaigns and cared about politics for as long as I can remember.

    I just don’t think you can count on people just despising the other guy enough to make an effort without something else to get them to the ballot box… though Democrats do seem Hell bent on creating that paradigm.

    I’m only referring to people who pay much attention, period.  As I’ve mentioned in other threads/posts, the people I know – neighbors, etc – who I know are going to vote Democrat no matter what, seem to almost make a show of watching the “debates” etc, but if you asked them they couldn’t give you any real answers about all the socialist things even the most “moderate” of the Dem candidates says they will do.

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