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b_b  ·  1605 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Strategies of Dementia Politics

As I remember it, you were the only person in my bubble who accurately predicted a Trump victory in 2016.





thenewgreen  ·  1605 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I called it when he announced. He went down that escalator and started calling Mexicans rapists and I knew the populace would eat it up. They are still eating it up. Despite the polling and now, Biden’s fundraising I still think Trump is as likely to win as Biden. It will be close. I can’t stand Trump but I see Trump signs all over and I see zero Biden. I think his delusional supporters are fanatical. I just drove from MI to NC and trump has a lot of support.

orbat  ·  1605 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A large enough percentage of humans are generally shitty enough that authoritarianism works. Even the NSDAP was voted into power, in some areas overwhelmingly so.

We've gotten this far despite ourselves, not because.

b_b  ·  1605 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hopefully the Biden people will just hammer the fuck out of that "I don't take responsibility at all" quote. I've seen a few iterations of commercials that show death totals and other scenes of mayhem then cut to Trump saying that. I can't remember a more devastating political ad. I hope that at the very least it tempers the enthusiasm of the Trump fence sitters. There's no electoral math where he can win with just the hard core types. My in-laws have never voted for Democrats in any recent memory, and they're both voting Biden.