This is what I don’t get.
Trump is like everyone’s marvel superhero, he’s whatever they imagine they want, the alternative to everyone else… Even very legitimate and thought out criticism can somehow conclude with supporting Trump when that makes no sense.
100%.
I agree with the assertion though. These are the two biggest egos in America, and there’s no way they get along for long.
I believe the calculus is “A even more extreme MAGA diehard will take my place.”
Which is 100% true.
Still extremely self-serving, but kinda reasonable in a Machiavellian way.
What do these chodes expect to happen after 2028?
Uh, nothing bad? Just like after screw-ups doing COVID-19?
America collectively has the attention span of a flea, and an even shorter term memory. No one even cares about what happened in 2016-2020 anymore
Collins and Murkowski hate Trump, they’re two of the last surviving Republicans that openly do so. I bet they won’t:
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/27/senate-collins-murkowski-harris-trump
They’re rightly scared of not being re-elected for daring to oppose him. Or worse.
Mark my words, you are going to see a LOT of railing against rebel Republicans from Trump. Or what few are left, anyway.
The “dirt” is not being re-elected because they dare question Trump.
I know every generation says it, but I really think there was a “peak” generation that grew up on the old web, and learned critical thinking the hard way. The Internet is a lie.
Those that never leave apps and their feeds? Not learning that lesson.
One good thing that may come of Trump is shaking a lot of complacency out of other countries. Maybe even hurting the far right in them, once the population gets a lot of exposure to full MAGA.
Don’t kill me, but I actually registered as a Republican so I can vote in their primaries and other elections, and have a say in who gets elected instead of choosing the Democrat that will get voted out of my Republican state.
Of course, recently, I’ve always voted blue unless the Dem is a massive jerk for some reason. Registering as a Republican doesn’t stop me from doing that.
Always has been.
Problem is their “gut” feelings are now from conservative radio/podcasts and facebook feeds, instead of a mix of papers and friends like before.
I saw a Brexit meme awhile back, of America going “hold my beer.”
Well, the UK is holding our beer now. Here we go!
Precisely.
Dems need to do the exact same thing, and more.
Bernie would have crashed just as hard with the same apparatus behind him.
Do you think Trump is charismatic on camera? No! It’s not him or his policy, it’s that his message would just not get through.
It’s the delivery.
Delivery is everything.
Trump reached these people, and Biden/Harris did not. It’s that simple. The message does not matter if it doesn’t get there. And this is a tremendous failure, considering the war chest the Dems squandered.
And I have zero faith they will learn from it. All the arguing I see is over policy that these people clearly never even laid eyes on.
You know why? Because these teamsters spend two hours a day sitting in a car listening to right-wing radio jockeys telling them how Democrats are only interested in policing their language and getting them in trouble for flirting with women.
Bingo.
Or scrolling their feeds. Or swiping. Depending on the age. Every single Democrat leader needs to see that statistic, so they can stop whining about how policy was their problem.
Democrats are messaging like it’s 1950. And hot take, but the only thing that elected Biden was COVID-19, only because it wedged itself into people’s lives like absolutely nothing else can.
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I saw barely any pro-trump messaging online. Partly because I’d rather not be online than watch that bullshit, but also because it all got filtered to the “other side of TikTok.”
Bingo.
Even Lemmy is (generally) a massive US left bubble, without any criticism its users honestly need to hear. And I fear the whole idea of the fediverse is going to reinforce that going forward.
Remember how great Brexit was, they say.