Drew Magary

Trump Is Not a Cosmic 404 Error

In his debut GEN column, Drew Magary implores Biden and other moderate Democrats to wake up and smell the permanent damage

Drew Magary
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6 min readAug 6, 2019

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Donald Trump speaking at a “Keep America Great” campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 1, 2019.
Photo: Andrew Spear/Stringer/Getty

TThere’s no way out of this. I am like many of you in that I would like Donald Trump to disappear forever so that I can finally fucking exhale and never have to think about his dumpy ass ever again. His family, too. But it’s too late for that now.

There’s gonna be an election in 2020, and while you could easily categorize the current tussle between Democratic candidates as a battle between middle-of-the-road capitalists and more progressive social democrats, there is a more subtle-but-pronounced fracture emerging into view: between candidates who are offering real ideas and candidates whose core message is, “Let’s just get rid of Trump and things will go back to normal.” Leading the latter pack is, naturally, Joe Biden, who hasn’t had a new idea since he decided black kids shouldn’t get bused to better schools:

“With Trump gone you’re going to begin to see things change. Because these folks [Republicans] know better. They know this isn’t what they’re supposed to be doing.”

This is not a new message from Biden. This is his normal. As Nick Visser reported over at…

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Drew Magary
Drew Magary

Written by Drew Magary

Columnist at GEN. Co-founder, Defector. Author of Point B.

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