we talk a lot about how bad the information environment is and how much people hated inflation and republicans still barely won and are now on track to do a lot of unpopular shit most people didn’t think they voted for
many of them are not going to like it very much
many of them are not going to like it very much
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Lakshya Jain
But the point is, America isn't as enamored with the GOP as the culture war vibe shift would have you think. Trump won by 1.5%. The Republicans won the House by a few thousand votes nationally and have a 5-seat majority on the back of record inflation.
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Repubs know this and are willing to sacrifice their marginal members in the exercise of power.
*No election is ever truly fair given Senate malapportionment.
If it does, they will be fine with it.
Any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice. The only way to "not know" what the republicans were going to do is deliberately and maliciously. They knew what they were doing & it helps no one to sanewash them.
I think that far many more are voting on vibes and lashing out at whoever the incumbent is regardless of party, if they don’t like how things are going
there are going to be a lot of things to get sensationally outraged about over the next few years, the era of supercharged thermostatic backlash may be upon us
but I think a lot of those same people will not be happy about cuts to benefits and the economic effects of massive tariffs
We’re going to need a new generation of Schoolhouse Rock that can explain tariffs, social security, and overall economics at a level a complete dipshit can understand for them to get it.
Economy tanking because of Trump tariffs? Fingers crossed that Joe Rogan doesn't blame [marginalized group] or Biden for it.
1. They are untethered from reality and culture war stuff is all they can think about
2. They know they can't meet any promises about inflation and also know that their policies will increase inflation and so need a distraction
The only conclusion I can arrive at is a lot of elected Democrats are just transphobes who want to be open transphobes.