I think his boast about visiting vets is a lie if for no other reason than that Trump is
a) lazy,
b) wouldn't like the energy and time investment needed to be interested in people other than himself, unless it benefits him personally.
Interesting thing about the language coming out of Walter Reed is how much spin is used to bury the lede.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyG...ombergPolitics
According to Walter Reed, the lead doctor Brian Garibaldi (a legit competent doctor) when asked to clarify Trump being discharged from Monday he said, "If he shows signs of recovery, he can be dicharged Monday and," let me add emphasis here, "and continue the treatment at the White House". Now that has been spun by Conley and others in Trumpworld to mean that "Trump will be recovered and fully cured by tomorrow" but in fact Garibaldi said that the treatment will continue at the White House. So that means that the Walter Reed team are committing to releasing a patient with COVID without the same normal procedures other patients are doing, and that Trump back in WH while keep getting treatment there (there apparently is an ICU and decent facilities there to handle it), while using henchmen, minions and other spin procedures to make out like he's fully cured.
Agreed. That isn't to say that one shouldn't criticize Dems or Third Way Liberals. Bill Clinton absolutely was a bougie hack where Obama (and I expect Biden) were simply bougie. Clinton's administration was maybe a respite from Reagan and a lot of good happened on his watch but at the same time he went too far conceding to the right than he should have, whereas Obama's legacy seems far more substantial in comparison. If Biden wins, that would be the end of Bill Clinton's legacy because Biden's victory would be the victory of Obama's over Clinton's. In England, Tony Blair was terrible who betrayed his electorate and took the party way too far to the right. Right now social democracy is doing good in Taiwan and New Zealand.
And as far as I am concerned, Bernie Sanders achieved far more in his failed campaigns in the primaries than he would have had he gone on the ticket in the General, or even if he hypothetically won. In power, Sanders as president would never have been able to achieve the ambitious ideas he wanted without the Senate and the House on his side. He needed to either put people closer to him in the ruling parties or substantially move the party to the left to achieve that. Through his campaigning you have Ocasio-Cortez and other left-wing reps coming to power, and that's a start but he needs far more to put himself over. A failed Sanders presidency would have been a huge setback to the left (in the same way Carter's failed Presidency was a setback for the Dems) whereas two failed primaries, the second bigger and more successful than the first, actually has pushed the Dems to the left. When Obama said that Biden had the most progressive platform he wasn't kidding.