I remember when Larry Sabato was not diminished by Trump Derangement Syndrome (99% of his public comments about Trump are negative). Now I read in his new book that Kamala Harris “ran as good a campaign as anyone could have in the mere 107 days left to her before November 5.”
If she ran such a great campaign, where is the clamor for her to return to politics?
She was an all-time awful vice-president and a terrible presidential candidate.
This book is a dud. I haven’t learned anything. It was released July 24 and it has yet to attract one review.
Grok says: “Sabato is a vocal Trump critic with a left-leaning perspective.”
Sabato pins to the top of his X account this tweet from 2017: “A favorite JFK quote: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.'”
I guess he’s a democracy dies in darkness kind of guy.
It’s a bit weird for an academic who loves to proclaim his objectivity pump out hysterical claims about the need to take stirring public stands in times of moral crises.
David Shepard writes Feb. 15, 2024:
Larry Sabato is a good bellwether to the thinking of the left…. Larry is a sufferer of Trump derangement syndrome. It is very well advanced; I’d say stage 4, or as Biden might describe the progression as being in the 4th trimester. Most of his tweets take aim at Trump. Sure, Larry hates all Republicans, but he saves most of his irrational vitriol for the big bad orange man.
What bad thing did Trump do now? Well, apparently the left is mad that former President Trump (now a private citizen) failed to use his dictatorial power to force House Republicans to pass the Democrat senate border security bill.
According to Professor Larry Sabato:
“Trump ordered Congress Rs to kill the border bill. They did as they were told. They are sheep… So who gets the blame?”
It’s quite breathtaking. There is nothing true or accurate in this tweet. It is full of false assumptions, and it is designed to spread a false narrative.
Larry is trying to promote several falsehoods in one fell swoop, everything from Trump is a dictator, even as a private citizen, Republicans are sheep that will just go along, to Biden had a plan to fix the border. The most bizarre assumption in his tweet is that Republicans really supported the Senate bill but opposed it because Trump told them to.
He concludes that since Republicans killed it, they deserve the lion’s share of the blame for the continuation of an open border. It was a poll showing the public mostly blamed Biden for the bill’s failure that prompted the tweet.
No doubt Larry wants people to believe that Biden is trying to solve the crisis at the border, and of course had no hand in creating the crisis. And now in his 4th year in office (and in an election year) he and Senate Democrats come up with the solution and Donald Trump, orders House Republicans to oppose the bill. They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. The unpatriotic nerve!
The tweet also implies that Trump has some sort of duty to support the Senate Democrats bill. Or at least a duty to keep quiet and not stop it. I have no idea why Sabato and the left thinks Trump had a duty to lobby Republicans to pass the bill. Or that Trump committed an unpatriotic act by speaking out against it. Was it a good bill or a bad bill? I have noticed that the left never says, they simply point out that it was “Bipartisan.” I take that to mean it wasn’t a good bill but that it could give Biden some political cover.
Ah, if only Trump would use his dictatorial powers for good.
