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Interesting theory, why do Republicans keep having gains politically? You're ignoring the fact that raving dogs seem to be the largest contigent of voting americans.
No I have not, they think they'll lose votes then they do anyway.
I'm not seeing it turning out like this. Time will tell I guess.
So it was actually a genius move from the Dems to give all that support to the biggest MAGA weirdos?
Are you trying to give the Dems credit for moving to the right on those issues? I hope not because by all measures it was a losing strategy.
Make no mistake Biden is a corpse but he is also a ghoul with a neoliberal admin that absolutely refuses to tackle material issues and spent 4 years gaslighting the population as the country headed into the economic abyss.
Even Biden would not be in this bad shape if the dems actualy tried to secure the liberal/progressive vote by actualy trying to get even bare basic wins on progressive issues.
I don't believe this is a hot take to say Biden would be the favorite if the Dems actualy tried to govern with the actual intent on pushing even remotely left policies and winning.
The reason the GOP can't easily attack Kamala is because remember that traditional conservatism is long dead. The Bush era GOP concerned with budget and shit? They moved away from that because nobody actualy gives a shit about the government deficit or military budget. The 2008 crisis already jokerfied millenials back then with all the government bailouts if you remember. Why care about budget when the elite gets free money whenever they want?
Too big to fail was a fairly important cultural/political point of that era.
Now Trump is a once in a lifetime figure due to his charisma but he also only exaggerated this trend. The GOP doesn't have a political platform except racism since the Bush era, its old news.
Probably true I agree. The problem is the dems don't want this to happen, hence the current climate. The dems are about to lose an election they should win because they must walk the line between deliberately gaslightling liberals and not doing it so much that the GOP actualy dies and the dems end up being blamed for everything and having to actualy govern.
A fundamental part of Dem strategy is blaming Republicans for everything and they can't do that if the GOP dies. Hence there will always be this status quo where Dems only realy lose due to their own incompetence.
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