Biden says the Trump administration is an aberration,

[crazytown]

or at least it will be if defeated in 2020.

Trump is no more than a crude practitioner of the Republican playbook going back to Southern Strategy in 1968. RW radio authored his script, Trump spewed it out.
Go to 2.20 on this 2010 video then tell me there’s something new.

(The cartoon starts with the right blaming Obama for income inequality, the recession, W’s bailout program, unemployment and foreclosures. The meat is served when Glenn Beck comes on )

[uawchild]

1. Biden is wrong, it's no aberration

As you said in your post:
"Trump is no more than a crude practitioner of the Republican playbook going back to Southern Strategy in 1968. RW radio authored his script, Trump spewed it out."

The tRump administration is just the latest fruit of the poisoned tree that's the Republican Party. Even when we win in 2020, they are not magically going away. They grabbed power back after the Obama presidency and they will keep trying to take power again and again and again.

[crazytown]

3. The way Mayor Pete puts it

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we are at an inflection point. We could go in a new direction, breaking sharply from Reaganomics, or we could make a steep descent into proto fascism. If we put off the break with Reaganomics, a descent into fascism is more likely.

[marylandblue]

6. That's what I think. There is no middle ground this time. There is no going back.

We will decisively go down one path or the other.

I support Pete because he understands this very clearly. Warren is my 2nd choice because she has correctly identified income inequality as the driving force behind our political problems.

[crazytown]

9. I could listen to Pete all day.

One thing I respect is he doesn’t try to claim other candidates proposals as he own. If he is asked about Elizabeth’s wealth tax he says it should be part of the revenue mix. What he is doing is separating efficient and equitable taxation from spending proposals In other words, each should be judged on it’s merits. You may end up with the same results, but the analytical framework is different. Pete is depreciating the Robin Hood element that is in Sanders and Warren’s rhetoric. Elizabeth has chose.the wealth tax to fund writing off student debt in order to defuse the argument that she is asking ordinary workers to subsidise the (comparatively) well off.

[MBS]

10. Agree with Mayor Pete 1000% n/t

[MBS]

11. Agreed: not an aberration, alas

but a several-decade-old disease that must be conquered NOW, before we lose our democracy completely.

[onecaliberal]

2. I do not agree with that: it's 1/3 of the country. They'd love to kill us all.

[crazytown]

4. Do not agree with whatt?

[onecaliberal]

12. Not an abberation.

[crazytown]

13. Gotcha

I am on the same page.

[loyalsister]

5. "They'll take your jobs"

is an argument that has been around since before the civil war. It convinced people to kill and die in the name of white supremacy and has never been eradicated. Trump is a symptom and everything he has done in his efforts to preserve white supremacy have been tried and true.
No one is innocent. Responding to The Willie Horton ad and following Reagan's racist narrative on welfare has had lasting consequences that should not be dismissed. The southern strategy survived a Black president because we have never made as much progress as we once believed.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Trump is a features of this country, not a bug. Talking about "going back" to "normal" elides

the oppression that institutions have always exercised on parts of the population, and candidates would do well to remember that.

[jalan48]

8. Was Bush/Cheney torture an aberration? Was Reagan' secret and illegal wars in Central America?

Was Obama's stolen SCOTUS pick? The list is a long one leading up to our current Fascist leader. I don't think Biden gets it.