The biggest current problem for this next generation is the failure to get beyond Trump’s populist success in selling anger and grievance to excite online donations and right-wing talk shows.

GOP primary voters told a CBS poll last month that their top priority in a presidential candidate is someone to “challenge woke ideas,” among Democrats. An unnamed candidate who makes “liberals angry,” was not far behind with 57 percent support.

  • partial_accumenEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    I guess get Elon Musk to run. :p

    Thankfully the Constitution prevents that from happening.

    • @patachuEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Do we even know if Elon is “natural-born”? He could have been constructed in a lab by internet memelords.

    • @ThurkeauEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      Hey. Nothing in the Constitution would prevent him from running if he felt like it.

      • partial_accumenEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Hey. Nothing in the Constitution would prevent him from running if he felt like it.

        I invite you to check out Article 2, Section 1 of the US Constitution:

        “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”

        source

        Unless South Africa, Musk’s place of birth, becomes a member of the Union, I think Elon is out of luck for the Presidency.