• Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately the pro Trump propaganda is strong. If the opposition isn’t reminding people how horrible he is he’ll get free advertising again and win.

    If you don’t want to see it either block all political communities or get off social media.

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      Trump is old, but he appears energetic. He’s boisterous and aggressive, both traits appeal to his base. They don’t care if he gaffs or gets countries wrong.

      Edit: based on people’s reactions, somehow you seem to think I’m endorsing him or like him. I do not.

      To be clear, I’m trying to honestly assess why he might have a chance at winning. Our republic is fucked if he wins.

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        Have you seen his latest rallies? He has nowhere near the energy he did in 2016. He rambles about the dumbest shit, loses the plot, can’t tell countries and world leaders apart, just an overall mess. His previous attacks were pretty stupid but focused and determined. Now all he does is whine about how unfair the judges in his cases are. It’s low energy. Sad. Yeah, a lot of his base won’t care, but Maga Republicans have been getting absolutely bitch slapped at the voting booth.

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          He rambles about the dumbest shit, loses the plot, can’t tell countries and world leaders apart, just an overall mess.

          I legit cannot tell if you mean now or in the past.

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        Not sure why you’re being downvoted, you’re not wrong. He absolutely does give off the impression that he’s young and energetic to his voterbase, purely because of what you said.

        Before anyone gets upset with me as well, consider how Trump’s cult, and America in general, views traits like boisterousness or aggressiveness. To them, those are young/middle-age traits, not dementia-addled senior citizen traits.

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        Yeah when people try and pretend like Trump can’t speak to a crowd or isn’t charismatic I feel like I’m being gaslighted, it’s like they really don’t want admit he can be good at it for some reason. Being dumb af or evil is a separate thing than charisma, and if anything they’re infamously associated traits. He’s totally phoning it in a lot of the times now sure, but he can still turn it on when needed.

        Trump and Biden are both historically disliked party leaders, so pretending people have unanimous respect for every aspect of one or the other is really strange to me. I remember in 2016 people trying to convince themselves Hillary was cool and could give some “fierce” comebacks to Trump if only given the chance, and I was just fuck stop doing this to yourselves this is sad. If Hillary wins it will not be because she’s a good speaker… I still lose it at her robot voice being like, “I first came to awareness of you, through the Cardi B WAP!”

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      Trump and Biden are some of the most unpopular candidates ever to run for president but neither party seems able or willing to put someone more likeable up. Dems wholly rejected the candidate who had every chance of beating Trump in the general, in favor of the one more friendly to donor interests and had a pretty likely chance of losing. This is basically the death spiral of the system producing these results right now ad infinitum.

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          Neither Biden or Trump have exceeded low 50% approval ratings at their best, mostly both hover around 40%, with a constant 50-55% disapproval rating.

          It’s accurate that other presidents over the last half century have tanked harder than this, but no president in this timeframe aside from Truman potentially, has had a consistent approval rating this low, or a disapproval rating this high, and this applies to both Trump and Biden.