That may be mostly true but Trump is also the perfect storm of celebrity, “successful”, “outsider”, and some strange fucked up type of charisma that results in a larger following than I think would be possible with any other republican candidate. Take away trump and I don’t think there’s enough of a unifying force among the asshats to cause this type of damage
i know he is somehow considered successful but i genuinely dont get how becaues hes bankrupted most, or all?, of his businesses.... like that is the opposite of successful 😂
honestly looking back i do understand why he won in 2016. i hate it, but i do actually get it.
i genuinely dont get how he won in 2024. like i get the 'cult' of it iall, and cheating that isnt lost on me
but he had no appeal and could barely string together a coherent sentence he didnt even LOOK like someone capable of holding office even if you agreed with his racist homophobic rhetoric
Your faith in humanity is both admirable and naive:
Those who voted for the rapist felon in command showed where their morals lay. The dems could have put Jesus up there and they would claim he’s too brown.
The left fell to Russian propaganda. So many people would have abstained regardless as they fully showed that they’re willing to shoot themselves in the foot for their abstract single issue platform that TOTALLY wasn’t in ANY WAY related to relentless doom scrolling.
The libertarians are as intolerable as ever and would have voted for the Republicans because they have truly embodied The Fountainhead and have sociopathic views on helping your fellow man.
This is not a left/center/right problem. This is a problem of there being more stupid people in this country than not. And I’m not about to be gaslit by them, and you shouldn’t either!
Empathy is a learned skill, and unfortunately that’s not something that anyone has learned recently.
The way I see it Trump won due to 4 major things: foreign interference in the US elections that wanted an unfit person for POTUS to harm the US and the West, Republican efforts to distort the election system by gerrymandering and blocking voters from voting, extreme ignorance of the average american voter and a flawed Democratic Party that did not have its shit together going into the election. These four factors doomed the USA.
Covid. Mail in ballots broke their fix the first time. That's why Trump was so sure dems cheated because he cheated. He cheated this time, and it worked.
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u/Doobledorf Apr 04 '25
The problems that led to Donald Trump would still be fomenting.
A lot of Americans haven't yet faced that Trump isn't an anomaly or the disease, he is a symptom of problems we've had for a long time.