Because of how polarized things have gotten, that it's become easier to see what is actually going on if you pay attention. I think that has to due with polarization becoming so powerful that the restraint we're looking at to hem things in is basically the foundational document of the United States. Those are the limits - the rules we play by.
When we push on those limits, people start to pay more attention. America has been sort of a sleeping giant of politics in the sense that the majority of it's people don't vote. Stuff happens, life goes on, no one really pays much attention. But that number has been going up in recent years, especially where we are now in 2020. And once someone starts to familiarize themselves with things and if they can look at things dispassionately can start to see obvious trends emerging.
As I write this (since things happen so quickly), I'm seeing Biden wanting to do more lockdown (4 - 6 weeks, and we know how that works out), I'm seeing his campaign announced they want to get back into Syria (yay, promising more war...), setting up "task forces" for things like online harassment (boy, will social media people love that one!), it's not hard to understand one side wants power, and wants it very badly. People called it the swamp before Trump came along, long before.
Meanwhile, Trump is fighting legally in the courts, and removed several high ranking officials recently who weren't trust worthy, a left-wing government official is trying to block him from declassifying documents on the grounds that it would be potentially damaging to the country. The power struggle is going on at every level of government, because both sides know how to read the Constitution and one side doesn't care too much about it while the other one wants to defend it to the teeth.
Every step right now from either side is basically a power move, each one more blatant than before if it's not censored or ignored by the media, or made so light of that no one cares. The media's corruption levels are so off the charts high that we actually have no clue what's going on besides this polarized battle we're locked into. Did all bad things outside politics also stop happening? The purposeful self-blinding of the media, their complicity in destroying their own profession has made the very things they want to hide glaringly obvious to anyone not suffering TDS.
It will take some time before people even understand that politics isn't just this thing that happens in offices, deals are made and honored or not, and it's all sort of for a better purpose. Not when the politicians are using all the power they can exert to try and grab on to more power. Things that happen in other countries, they can't happen in the United States? Or have happened? Like Eric Weinstein says, we're waking up from a very long nap as a society and turns out there's a reason for politics and it's not nearly as nice as the propaganda would have us believe.
This is a biased perspective on Trump. You could easily argue he's purging the military and installing loyalists, threatening national security if he doesn't get his way, and dragging the country into a horrifically divisive legal battle over a conflict he can't win.
I don't agree with that perspective, but remember that your perspective is a bit biased here.
Agreed, this is why I'm not super interested in the nitty gritty details about each claim or whatever event comes up. These are clearly tactical maneuvers. I know that it seems like Trump may not win his lawfare effort, but enemy maneuvers tell me that he's hitting a fucking nerve. As with real war, the words aren't important, it's the behaviors and actions that are.
Maybe. I don't think it's the only option. People who feel there's a deep state, career bureaucrats who are appointed, various groups within the government, etc? Getting rid of those people should be a goal - the swamp has been swampy for a long time. Or, you cast them as law-abiding patriotic people who reject Herr Orange Man himself!? There's really not much space between that at the moment in this view of things. It's just two political parties trying to lock down power however they legally can. They both know where the levers of power lie, and they're trying to take control of as much as they can. This is a thing political parties have constantly done in the past all over the world - just that America's has been pretty dormant for a while, only really waking up in the past 5-6 years.
Eh, I do like knowing the details. I think they're going to be rather important in providing evidence and I think that evidence has a lot of use. Regardless of the outcome, when all the errors lean in one direction and the errors are so numerous as to be laughably obvious... it makes it very, very hard for people to not understand the system is corrupt. The details show you how they're corrupt though: some if it is basic illegal stuff, but other times it's just the people in a room being given instructions by a supervisor that is contrary to the law, or in a gray area. Some of it is the devices used to count the ballots, or people improperly using them. Those should all be investigated, and end up either in prosecutions or at the very least in swift legal changes that make sure those exact same things don't happen again.
I do think the optics are a weird thing. Is he hitting a nerve? I would go as far as to say it's practically 4D chess: Things changed after he Mueller Report. People gave it a fair shot, every time there was news, a new bombshell, etc. The idea that Trump could be compromised in some manner or had done something dubious didn't seem impossible. But that was a complete and total dud, because it was a crock of bullshit. Then came Kavanaugh, and fuck, the left was even more horrible there. Their credibility was already several broken by that point. Now, Trump's got his own legal investigations going on, pointing to all their bullshit and dragging more of it into the sunlight? Yeah, Trump's been hitting their nerve for a while and he's not letting up. It'd be really great to know exactly what's going on though lol, and see how right or wrong I am :(
I don't disagree, but I think it's like analyzing a battle after it's taken place. The niche details are critically important to understand what went down, but in the middle of the battle, it's good to also not get bogged down on a single issue.
We'll find out as the smoke clears from the battlefield.