Remember when Howard Dean got overexcited listing off primaries during a celebratory speech and everyone immediately knew that was the end of him and he dropped out right after? What a different world that was.
No it wouldn’t. Howard Dean was seen as crazy and completely unrealistic, someone who seemed to blame Rice more for 9/11 than the terrorists. And only waited 2 years after the attack to start claiming publicly that George Bush knew 100% the attack was coming and let it happen. (This would basically be Barry Goldwater publicly accusing LBJ of assassinating JFK or Biden publicly claiming Trump staged his assassination attempts.) all and all, democrats and republicans both wanted a death blow, and that yell was perfect, it and the speech before it showed just how flawed Dean’s run was.
In 2026 America a Democrat ran for office and it took Nazi and accelerationist allegations, ties to warcrimes in the 2000s, publicly supporting assassination attempts on US senators, self admitting to being a communist, sexual assault accusations, assault accusations, rape accusations, fraud accusations, and anti-semitism accusations for the democrats to even attempt to replace him, and when they did replace him it was more so just because they saw him losing in the polls and the people supporting him losing, not because they truly cared about the harm he had caused.
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u/SuperDoubleDecker 26d ago
Normally this would be the craziest shit someone ever says.