What would be worse? Trump or another Trumpist?

[Del Tachi]

This question and the associated responses are an interesting case study in how the liberal punditry has perfected the art of using unfalsifiable claims to set their preferred narratives.

Like, even if a "normal" Republican is elected in 2024, liberals are already bemoaning him as only a more competent(i.e., worse) version of Trump.  As long as liberals remain in control of the mainstream press, I'm convinced each Republican president will somehow manage to be worse than the previous one lol   

[Del Tachi]

This question and the associated responses are an interesting case study in how the liberal punditry has perfected the art of using unfalsifiable claims to set their preferred narratives.

Like, even if a "normal" Republican is elected in 2024, liberals are already bemoaning him as only a more competent(i.e., worse) version of Trump.  As long as liberals remain in control of the mainstream press, I'm convinced each Republican president will somehow manage to be worse than the previous one lol   

Fox News has about 2.5 million viewers every night.  Is that not mainstream enough for you?

And yet it exists on the journalistic fringe, with motivated voices at legacy New York-based media outlets calling it detrimental to the integrity of news overall.  Fox News is not any more brazenly biased or blind to ideologically unfavorable facts/stories than liberal cable news outlets like MSNBC, they just attract criticism n for doing it in support of the *wrong* opinions.   

[Del Tachi]

This question and the associated responses are an interesting case study in how the liberal punditry has perfected the art of using unfalsifiable claims to set their preferred narratives.

Like, even if a "normal" Republican is elected in 2024, liberals are already bemoaning him as only a more competent(i.e., worse) version of Trump.  As long as liberals remain in control of the mainstream press, I'm convinced each Republican president will somehow manage to be worse than the previous one lol   

"Normal" is a very nebulous term. Who gets to decide what a "normal" Republican is? If said Republican supports every policy Trump does, as well as Trump's attempts to undermine our institutions, is the assertion really unfounded? Either way, what might be considered a "normal" Republican by most in 2024 might have been considered a fringe candidate as recently as 2015 or possibly even later. And it's not like Republicans don't manage to make every Democratic president, even those specifically chosen to be "safe"/"compromise" candidates into "socialists", "antifa/CRT supporters", etc. so it's not like liberals totally control the narrative. And the punditry seemed to think Trump was uniquely awful, so it's not like thinking someone could be worse than Trump is blindly following the punditry.

Yeah that's my point:  "normal" is a very nebulous term.  Any future Republican president who implements any kind of conservative solution on the border or tries to play hardball with tech companies, for instance, is going to be vilified as a more competent version of Donald Trump.  It's an easy claim for the liberal punditry to make because it's completely unfalsifiable.  The very fact OP is asking this question now (and how several posters have answered) is suggestive of this narrative already being set.