After nearly a decade of being forced to take Trump seriously, Democrats increasingly call BS on the whole charade

Sure, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy — a would-be dictator on day one who has called for terminating the U.S. Constitution so he can hold onto power even after losing a free and fair election. But while draped in the rhetoric of populism, Trump and his MAGA movement are not actually popular; the man himself has never won more votes than the person he ran against, a majority of Americans twice rejecting him and his off-putting cult of personality. That he was ever president is more or less because a few thousand swing voters in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania thought it would be fun.

President Joe Biden won in 2020 largely by promising to a return to normalcy and baseline competency. In 2024, Democrats are making a similar argument but more forcibly: They’re pointing, laughing and dismissing Trump and his circus as a total freak show to which we can’t return.

  • FarmTaco@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    All you’ve done is prop up a strawman and insult people and then act like insulting people is the highground lmao.

    I’m glad that in your world time spent active on lemmy equates to being correct, lmao.

    • Jax
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      4 months ago

      No, I didn’t, and then I provided the most blatant example of why you’re wrong.

      Quiet now, child.