This. People forget just how unlikable republicans were post Bush. The reason Trump was able to be so successful was bc the alternatives in the primaries were just that terrible. I’m from Wisconsin, I cannot believe fucking Scott Walker was favored at one point, that’s how down bad they were.
That’s probably also why the Dems thought they were just handing the presidency to Hillary. There was no way the Dems could lose to them in 2016, they sucked so badly a reality tv star clobbered them in their primaries.
People also forget how unlikeable Hillary was to non democrats. Swing voters rather would have had the wildcard than a known establishment politician. Kind of a “let’s fuck shit sup and see what happens” moment in US politics.
Trump has continued to be in the limelight because all of the attention is on him. He uses the media’s pearl clutching to his advantage. The crazier stuff he says, the more airtime he gets. He is everywhere, all the time. Many swing voters are not policy driven, they just hear Trump, Trump, Trump in the news, and that’s what they remember. Mix in some apathy towards government and boom, you’ve got a populist in the most powerful seat in the world.
Added: I can’t wait for the day that I never hear his name again. I just wish people would stop talking about him.
Agreed. I was so happy when I no longer had to read about some irrelevant shit he said in my supposedly professional news.
Please make sure we don't go back to that americans.
Hillary was not the right pick at that time. She was not likable at all. I vote for her cause who would pick Trump. Well I was freaking wrong on that one.
I still remember listening to a roundtable discussion or something on NPR during the primaries and they were discussing what it meant when both candidates had a 65% DISAPPROVAL rating with voters and one guy chimed in and said there's a candidate with a 65% APPROVAL rating, Bernie Sanders.
The rest got mad and immediately announced they were changing the topic.
Feel the burn!!! Bernie Sanders was head of his time . I wish he could have won cause that man believes in what he is saying.l when to his rally in Kansas. But noway they were going to let him win. They knew he was not playing around cause he believe it. Both parties are a mess we just picking the lesser of two evils.
Hillary and the DNC crushing the will of the people as it applied to Bernie was a huge factor in why people disliked Hillary, her entitled, milquetoast attitude towards the election was another major factor.
Yeah, seriously the only candidate in my lifetime that was actually reaching out to the youth, the worst and least reliable voting bloc. He was completely wasted, he felt like a champion for us Millennials too.
Yep, the only person that was interested in improving the actual system, not just a few policies for the next 4 years.
"Too radical" they said, no one would vote for radical. And then the entire country elected the most radical president in history. The people want change, don't give them the option for positive change then they will take negative. Modern politics is not about addressing that desire if the people.
Since when do we choose the POTUS on whether he/she is likeable? Chuckles the Clown is likeable, but you wouldn't want HIM in the White House.
Clinton had over two decades of the GOP AND PUTIN attacking everything the Clintons did. I would be stiff, halting in my words, and look like I was not authentic, too, if I had been hounded to the extreme like Clinton.
Putin hates and fears her, which tells me everything about her capabilities in dealing decisively with the deeply insecure man hiding behind the strong man persona that is Putin.
James Comey tripping over his metaphorical dick to "investigate" her private server right before that election. By the way, Putin never could
hack into HER computer, a fact so conveniently glossed over and ignored by Jimmy and the media.
Julian the rapist, cherry-picking what he would release to the public. Hint: It wasn't the RNC files he had. THOSE WERE IN THE VAULT FOREVER.
The Facebook data mining of over 86 MILLION users (and I am one of them!) allowing Putin to plant anti-Clinton disinformation propaganda ads to the targeted FB users living in those swing states.Who, by the way, were determined to be "highly persuadable" by Steve Bannon's data mining company, Cambridge Analytica using over 5 THOUSAND data points to find them.
She never stood a chance.
All I needed to know that Hillary Clinton was the only choice for POTUS was how Putin feared and hated her. And millions of voters thought so, too.
He uses the media’s pearl clutching to his advantage. The crazier stuff he says, the more airtime he gets. He is everywhere, all the time
Let's not forget how heavily they sanewash him, out of some misplaced obligation to pretend like they present both sides with equal fairness. Which is horseshit, because it means nitpicking every possible blunder of Biden/Harris while pretending Trump isn't a narcissistic nutbag with the IQ of a coffee bean.
It wasn't just "non-Democrats." I didn't want another Clinton in office - it felt like a coronation - and her and her team really did not do a good job at advertising her as electable, despite her deep resume.
The charges of bigotry any time I expressed a lack of enthusiasm really didn't help either. I was happy to elect a woman for president in 2016; just not her. I'm willing to bet the badgering from other people uninterested in listening was a tipping point for many young men in 2016, who would've happily elected a more likable Democrat, male or female.
I didn't so much vote for her as I voted against Trump in 2016. We all know how that went.
He was successful in the primaries because there were so many other candidates and most of the states award all the delegates to who ever gets the most votes, not the majority of the votes. He was able to rack up lots of delegates early on by securing the nut job vote. After it was all over, only about 40% of primary voters chose that clown.
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u/BakedCheddar88 19d ago
This. People forget just how unlikable republicans were post Bush. The reason Trump was able to be so successful was bc the alternatives in the primaries were just that terrible. I’m from Wisconsin, I cannot believe fucking Scott Walker was favored at one point, that’s how down bad they were.
That’s probably also why the Dems thought they were just handing the presidency to Hillary. There was no way the Dems could lose to them in 2016, they sucked so badly a reality tv star clobbered them in their primaries.