We tried to warn you

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    2 months ago

    Nah, the reason trump got elected is multi- faceted, but Americans wanted him over a woman. You can 100% acknowledge it, but the we tried to warn you is the irrelevant part lol.

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      2 months ago

      Nah, the reason trump got elected is multi- faceted, but Americans wanted him over a woman.

      trump was elected because people who would vote for an opposition party didn’t see one and stayed home.

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        2 months ago

        And were content with the possibility of trump being elected, yes. The effectively two party system in the us meant it was with kamala or trump.

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          2 months ago

          Yes, that’s the reason I voted for harris. The party seriously overestimated how many people would do likewise. Or the party preferred trump to mounting an actual opposition.

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              2 months ago

              Yes, he represented hateful people. harris needed to appeal to people who might have voted for her. Instead, she tried and predictably failed to appeal to nonexistent moderate republicans who would never vote for her.

              When centrists pander to republicans, republicans don’t buy it. But the left correctly sees it as a betrayal.

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      2 months ago

      Gender had nothing to do with why she lost, she was a shit candidate that bowed to keep all the issues that people had with Biden in place while cozing up to people barely left of trump.

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        2 months ago

        I think gender had a lot to do with things. She was a mediocre candidate, leagues better than trump, yet Americans were content with the possibility of trump being elected.

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          2 months ago

          She tried running on a Republican platform courting Republicans

          The people don’t want a phony Democrat. If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat.

          Harry Truman 1952

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            2 months ago

            She tried running on a democrat platform, which is republican lite. There are at least some semblance of policies to help people with the democratic platform.

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        2 months ago

        centrists keep banging the “women can’t win” drum because they don’t have a woman on their bench who is as popular as AOC. They’re holding back all women to stop one progressive woman.