It might be cringe, but I'm going to keep repeating that Trump won by a thin margin, and that this mass capitulation which suggests a sweeping mandate is embarrassing and delusional.
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If the tables had been turned and Harris had won the election at 49.9%, Trump and Co. would be rejecting any premise of Harris having a mandate. So I’m not sure why so many centrists and liberals seem eager to do the opposite.
Don’t get me wrong here. Trump won decisively, the Dems fucked up terribly, and we’re in a bad place. But knowing whether you were beaten in a squeaker, a landslide, or something in between *can* have an impact on resolve to fight.
And revealing. Trump's strongest cohort was always the wealthy - and the wealthy include both techbros and all the upper level in the media. So, they show us, at last, beyond evasion, what they really believe. As a wee little pee poking at the NYT since the Bush years, this is a bitter victory.
Liberals would rather try to pretend they ran a flawless campaign that only failed because voters are irredeemable racists who all want Project 2025 than admit their rightward-pandering hollow neoliberalism proved less palatable to voters than a convicted fraud TV-host rapist clown
I'm so angry at all these liberal pundits and politicians just willingly punting the Overton Window as hard to the right as they possibly can just to soothe their own egos, rather than confront the catastrophic incompetence within the Democratic Party and its cadre of fart-huffing consultants.
It was also pretty insulting watching them talk about "demographic shifts" that were actually explained by voters on one side not showing up at all rather than voters switching to the other side, skewing the proportional results.
NONE of the presidents in the last 20 or 30 years has had an actual mandate of the people. Biden was closest when more than 65% of the electorate showed up.
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Trump didn’t win the election in a landslide.
Let’s remember that.
Fetterman I guess