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Well would you look at that... (lemmy.today)
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[–] 43 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Homie, it was about the economy. I wish USAmericans would give a fuck about anything else, but it was the gas prices.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 day ago* (8 children)

    I'm pretty sure 2024 was about the racism. The price of eggs was an excuse so they didn't have to admit it was the racism.

    We're still guessing, but there were a lot of factors at play in the 2026 Midterms blue typhoon. Yes, runaway inflation, the affordability crisis and the global energy crisis felt at home were all large factors.

    Curiously -- and this brings me hope -- open corruption and self-dealing by the Trump family and Republican pay-to-play politics was also a large factor. People are really vocal about it.

    Weaponization of government departments, like the DoJ going after political enemies or state election boards, was a factor.

    ICE and the concentration camps are a factor, though not as much as it really should be. This motivated the Latin flip.

    After the gutting of the VRA and the southern-state gerrymanders, the US Black vote responded Oh, HELL NO!

    The broken MAGA promises, the still-elusive Epstein files, the war in Iran after a promise of no more forever wars, pushed some MAGA true believers to the fringes of their movement. They just failed to show.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    I don't think so. Yes, the US is very racist in a lot of ways, but the reason Harris lost was because the Biden admin failed to do anything to substantially improve anyone's life, and she didn't appear credibly different. Biden was elected purely over dissatisfaction with Trump, but that wasn't enough for a second win. We are in the same place right now. Dems won on dissatisfaction, but they'll need to deliver results to win again in 2028.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    We already had a term with Trump, and knew how that worked out. On the campaign trail, Trump also said what he intended to do. His dictator for a day fantasies made his malevolence super clear. His promises were entirely implausible. (E.g. I Will end the Ukraine conflict in the first week.)

    And then there was project 2025 which described how the Republican party planned to dismantle federal regulatory bodies and neuter federal elections.

    No. They said so. #IVotedForThis β€” They wanted to see brown children back in cages again. They wanted a Schutzstaffel to disappear the undesirables. They didn't care the patrician class was going to plunder the US treasury and its credit.

    Of the severity-seven million American voters in who chose Trump, hundreds, maybe might be ignorant idiots, but most of them were malevolent. They still are.

    To be fair, they're also under the influence of a massive far-right propaganda machine that dominates social media and television viewership. FOX News uses the same brainwashing techniques that were used on US soldiers in Korea.

    I understand the Democratic party postmortem suggested it was more benign issues, (trans athletes) but then I'm pretty sure that part of the party is captured and controlled opposition. They have cause to present a biased analysis.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    You're describing what motivates Trump's base. They are in a cult, but they don't win elections on their own. Believe it or not (and I don't like it either), most people just care about their own lives.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Trump's base are low-information, low-education voters. The rest of Americans should have actually seen Trump is a monster and should not be entrusted with power.

    To be fair, most Democrats polled identify as moderate or centrist Democrats but then they agree with the main DSA positions that moderate Democratic officials stand against.

    To paraphrase something that Jamelle Bouie recently said, The American people voted in a madman. And they're going to have to collectively ask themselves some difficult questions about their intent, and even their capacity to self-govern.

    I have every reason to be pessimistic.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    They did. 1/3 of eligible voters chose hate and rascim. 1/3 said said anyone but Trump. And almost all of the remaining 1/3 saw the same racist pedophile who straight up told us what he was going to do. They looked at the malevolent evil he represented, weighed out the pros and cons of him being reelected and rather than vote against him, they decided that him winning was acceptable.
    If that 1/3 of the country had voted for anyone else, then you might be able to say that they just couldn't agree on who to vote for, and didn't like her politics or the Biden administration or whatever. But that's not what they did. They decided that what he represented was acceptable.

    You don't just find that level of hate ”acceptable" without having enough of your own hate to make it not seem that bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    I understand the Democratic party postmortem suggested it was more benign issues, (trans athletes)

    Nobody cares about trans athletes. Harris lost because she never touched important stuff. Yes most of the people agree that abortion should be right of every woman. NO this is NOT an issue that will sway their votes one way or another. Average US citizen doesn't care about war in Ukraine. But they do care about Epstein files. And all they got from Biden was 5 years of silence.

    My only conclusion is that dems live in their own echo chamber.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    The reson Harris lost was a dogshit planning with a cancer stricken candidate as vehicle. From the current perspective it looks like she was counting on Biden winning and then leaving the position due to health issues.

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Gas prices, grocery prices, ICE raids, school closures, job losses...

    It was a lot of things

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  • [–] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I meant gas prices as shorthand for the economy in general but you're right. I'm not so sure about the ICE raids. If the economy was doing well, I don't think they would have moved the needle, sadly.

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  • [–] -1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Every time I read USAmericans I just see "us Americans" are you trying to include yourself? If not Americunts is probably fine.

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