• capital@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    and you say, “If you ever treat me like that again, I will leave you,”

    Finish the analogy to better fit this issue. You leave your partner for a MORE abusive partner. Why?

    • pjwestin@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      …except they didn’t do that. The Uncommitted movement didn’t leave her for Trump; they didn’t endorse Trump and actively warned their members not to vote third-party because it would help him. They just followed through with their threat to withhold their endorsement. If she needed their help that badly, she should have done something to win that endorsement.