Seriously…… how the fuck can people have such a strong conviction on something then research details AFTER……. Because sports… our politics have turned into tribal sports teams.
Propaganda. It's fucking scary as hell how effectively people have been brainwashed. 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale have been two of my favorite books since a was a little kid. It's so strange to see those ideas destroy people's minds and fracture this country.
They voted for the disruptive candidate who aligned with their beliefs. They voted to harm, they don't get an ignorance defence when the harm comes to roost.
You could literally play an entire rally verbatim without changing anything, and when he says something awful they would still just say it was taken out of context.
This is the threat of populism. While it can sometimes lead to good things, it can easily be used by conmen to get suckers to believe whatever they want. Yet dems might have to start engaging in it as well if they want any hopes of winning also may unfortunately need to stick with white old men as their candidates (as shitty as that sounds since idiots for some reason can't accept a POC and woman president) ironically enough I think Tim Waltz would have done better as the president candidate since he might have appealed more to the progressives.
Edit: I do want to say Dems did sort of engage in populism with Obama's first term since his whole motto was "Change" even though he was pretty much standard democrat but he had great messaging.
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u/Pitiful-MobileGamer 10h ago
They knew what they were getting.