Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: “He’s a dictator.”

The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.

Other than that, though, a Trump-hosted APEC meeting would likely have been unrecognizably different from the successful and productive forum hosted by President Joe Biden.

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    32 years ago

    Your plan is to keep voting for people who don’t support ranked choice voting.

    My plan is to vote for people who support ranked choice voting.

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              62 years ago

              You think throwing away your vote on a candidate who claims to support electoral reform but has no chance of winning will have any meaningful impact?

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                  22 years ago

                  They might if they joined a real party instead of a troupe cosplaying as politicians.

                  You want change, you join one of the real parties and fight to become a candidate in that party and gain enough influence to shift party policy.

                  If everyone that did the third party nonsense did that, there might be enough support in a real party to start changing things and maybe eventually make third parties viable instead of just a performative game.

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                    32 years ago

                    That didn’t work, Bernie is an independent that tried running as a Dem, but undemocratic super delegates and a biased media stopped him.

                    AOC and the justice democrats also failed and do whatever Nancy Pelosi says