If only people didn’t experience what it’s like when Democrats have power, they’d be more willing to give them power.

The Leftist being one Ed Killgore, who has never struck me as particularly sharp in his political analysis even when dealing with reality, and comes across even less so in this Alternate Timeline fantasy in the appropriately named wank section, The Intelligencer, of the even more pretentious magazine, New York.

You can read the whole thing at the link – there’s a schadenfreudeliciousness to it – but the following excerpts are a good enough synopsis of the whole thing:

A reelected Trump would not have had four years to plan a scorched-earth second term with audacious power grabs far beyond anything he tried from 2017 to ’21…

True. Almost all Presidential 2nd terms are deflated compared to their 1st terms, accomplishing little more than coasting on the successes of the 1st that got them re-elected. Thus it would have been for Trump.

Instead it’s like a 1st term, but even better in that he learned from his mistakes in picking staff and dealing with the bureaucracy of Federal government, plus knowing that he would have to go as fast as possible in order to get anything done.

His heir apparent would have been a two-term vice-president, Mike Pence, a milquetoast low-charisma politician….

I’d almost forgotten about Mike Pence, the Republican that Democrats secretly love because they’re losers even when they win. That GOP is not coming back from the grave.

Ironically neither is Killgore’s Democrat Party, which is on the verge of being taken over by the Far Left, since there appear to be no more Bill Clintons’ or Barack Obamas’ to paper over its cracks. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro could be that man but he’s Jewish and that doesn’t work in today’s Democrat Party any better than it did in their previous street enforcer gang, the KKK.

Anyhoo, on with Killgore’s fantasy

A defeated Joe Biden would have gracefully ended his political career in 2021. Kamala Harris would have suffered two debilitating losses in the 2020 presidential cycle, once as a presidential nomination candidate and once as a veep nominee; no one would have considered her a serious candidate for 2024.
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The Democratic Party would not be defending record inflation, uncontrolled immigration, too much “wokeness,” a mismanaged withdrawal from Afghanistan, and all sorts of other problems. No one would be writing exposés about an aging Democratic president losing his grip but hanging grimly on to power. Democrats could have managed a fresh start and a likely 2024 win without losing ground with key constituencies or earning the bitter enmity of so many unhappy young people….

If only people didn’t experience what it’s like when Democrats have power, they’d be more willing to give them power.