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Dem4life1970

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1. A little perspective on the autopsy of this election as well...
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:39 PM
Nov 20

So take a step back and keep all of this in mind when you hear Trump and his supporters suggest that the election was this enormous wave in which a transformation swept across the country, in which Americans were just begging for a MAGA makeover.

That is the line Republicans are selling — and lots in the mainstream media are granting it in various ways — but it’s just plainly not true. And we’ve gone through this all before. Just compare all the postmortems in the past two weeks about “what the American people really wanted” when Trump won by 1.6 points nationally to the postmortems we got in 2016, after Clinton beat him by 2.1% nationally, but lost in the Electoral College. It’s all the same stuff.

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A little perspective on the autopsy of this election as well... Dem4life1970 Nov 20 #1
Facts don't matter Miguelito Loveless Nov 20 #2
Fascisim Is Delusional Which Is Why Fascists Reject Facts Instead Embracing Delusion Lest They Desroy Their Own Lies MayReasonRule Nov 20 #5
doesn't matter Skittles Nov 20 #3
You can't end a myth if people continue to believe in it regardless of the MAGAts believe what they want and are backed Martin68 Nov 20 #4
But there are always new voters coming along each year who might be swayable in the future. electric_blue68 Nov 20 #7
Bullet ballots? "Democrats also did surprisingly well in down-ballot races for a "losing" side". . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 20 #6
And that's a talking point we can use. calimary Nov 20 #9
Whichever side wins, always calls it a mandate. Unfortunately, trump and his henchmen see it as endorsement Silent Type Nov 20 #8
Fox News can go shove their stupid mandate where it don't shine. Initech Nov 21 #10
I agree. "It should end the MAGA mandate myth." BadgerMom Nov 21 #11
Trump will always have a special majority status in my mind, and it warms my heart -- nmmi Nov 21 #12
Its shameful that he won the popular vote. maxsolomon Nov 21 #13
You know New England's victory over the Atlanta Falcons was also historically narrow Jk23 Nov 21 #14
This isn't to convince MAGA... Dem4life1970 Nov 21 #15
It doesn't matter Mz Pip Nov 21 #16
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