I’ll just leave this here
Platform wise some of them are republican as we know them now even if their circles are blue. I think Clinton and Carter are what we’d consider current democrats
Carter was pre-Reagan. This was before the neoliberals took over the Democratic Party.
Clinton mostly accepted Republican framing of the economy, that taxes on the rich need to be low for… Reasons.
The main argument of the neoliberals is that while conservatives are “right” about a bunch of their policies and shit, they’re just bad at running everything.
Carter was before that shit. Back when we said that conservative policy was heartless and evil.
Some in the Democratic Party are coming back to this simple idea.
Did they actually have a good one? Since 2015 or so they’ve just pivoted to pure crazies and people sticking their tongues up crazy’s arseholes.
The GOP electoral coalition is the smaller, weaker coalition. It’s lost the popular vote seven out of nine times in my lifetime (I’m 36). It has lost the Electoral College three out of the last four cycles. Conservatives might not be very eager to hear this, but ‘We the People’ are mostly Democrats," Wright continued.
So you’re saying, the republicans are a minority. So maybe they need some inclusion and equity so people can appreciate the diverse opinion they bring to the table. So basically, conservatives and republicans need DEI 🤔
All that remains, he said, is for Republicans to “stop whining” and try to create a stronger coalition — which so far there is no indication they are trying to do.
And how will they do that? Hint, joining with Nazis or white supremacists isn’t necessary. The commoners want more than bread and circuses, and blood or bloodlust is a poor substitute. Conservatism as a platform needs to become less disingenuous and hypocritical. The republicans are the party of the oligarchs, and by definition that will always fail a democracy.
Picked two bad candidates.
Bad candidates, bad policies, bad justifications, bad faith… The list goes on
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"Trump’s weakness only remained hidden for much of this year because…
Only for “much of this year”? Are you kidding me?
His many, many flaws were/are invisible to his selectively blind cult members. Those people were, however, loud and obnoxious enough to force their opinion on the weak Republican Party, and the party was too ineffectual to come up with an alternative. Boo fucking hoo.
We picked a guy who has lost two straight elections to run in a third election? Yeah, that tracks.
lost two straight elections
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He only lost one. Unless this is some veiled commentary about the illegitimacy of the electoral college
2016 election by popular vote:
Trump - 62,984,828 Clinton - 65,853,514
Trump won the birth lottery. Ever since then he’s been a big fat loser.
Then say he lost the vote. He very evidently won the election.
Nah. As far as I’m concerned he lost the election and got into office on a technicality.
hahahaha just edit the first post and admit it cmon it’s ok to misspeak