My biggest mistake in thinking about the 2024 election was believing that people would, you know, remember what four years of President Trump was like. The country and its institutions did perhaps too good of a job of resisting him and it made everyone forget who he was. - ThreadSky

cooperlund.online • 1 day ago

My biggest mistake in thinking about the 2024 election was believing that people would, you know, remember what four years of President Trump was like. The country and its institutions did perhaps too good of a job of resisting him and it made everyone forget who he was.

Reposted from Amanda Terkel

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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whyaduck.bsky.social•1 day ago

The fallacy of the Trump business acumen is one for the history books. Either that or that it was always a cover story for the racism and general assholery implicit in his movement and they are just mad at the roosting leopards.

jerrybrennan.bsky.social•1 day ago

SAME. I was like, "Nobody who lived through 2020 is gonna want to go through that again." Whelp...

jakechristie.bsky.social•1 day ago

In conversations I’ve had with “normies,” I think there was just an overwhelming sense of “If he was really that bad A) why didn’t the country fall apart? and B) why is he allowed to run again?

xie.bsky.social•1 day ago

The people who were like 15-18 in like 2017, but not out of school, and are now 20-22 also just didnt engage with his first term in any consequential way combined with 5 years of absolutely marinating in right wing online garbage. The generation honestly feels lost politically.

valentinexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

15-18 in 2017 means you’re now 23-26.

I’m very skeptical that the cohort of 18-20 year olds whose first Presidential election was 2020 (and more likely than not voted for Biden) is to blame for Trump 2024.

valentinexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

*18-21, excuse me.

Maybe I’m biased (I was actually 18 in 2017 and spent the lion’s share of the 45 admin as a college student) but I don’t see how we can blame the cohort whose earliest memories of politics are the Women’s March and March for our Lives for this.

valentinexyz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ever since the election, I’ve subscribed to this mindset. My “Gen Z 1.0” ass is not taking the heat for what “2.0” did.

devilclub.bsky.social•1 day ago

They can't see it even as they're being destroyed.

mullinshere.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was more like a collective desire to forget. I feel like he and COVID got kind of bundled together into "experiences we mustn't think of." And heaven knows, people are already forgetting stuff that happened 2 years ago. We don't process things anymore, just rush ahead, and it's dangerous.

trca.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was really crazy watching every news outlet talk about him like he hadn't already been a president with a terrible approval rating. I don't even know if Kamala's campaign really brought it up that much. It was all forward looking to what he could do.

drsyintist.bsky.social•1 day ago

People’s attention span and sense of linear time, like remembering when something actually happened and in what order, are so completely gone at this point. Most people don’t even remember the entire year trump was president that we had COVID.

discerningtrouble.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'll be honest. This is why I advocate for Hot Stove Therapy. People don't learn if you constantly mitigate their consequences.

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