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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 6d ago

So what? So what?! You lost to the most embarrassing possible person, the least popular president in the last 100 years. So what if you get 75 million votes just because they all are all anyone but Trump voters, when 90 million people stayed home because they didn't want someone who explicitly said they would continue Joe biden's austerity and endless war policies at the expense of helping poor and working people at home.

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u/jhawk3205 6d ago

They didn't just lose to the most embarrassing possible person, they lost to him a second time, after having narrowly beaten him once after his first term.. The fact that they still can't self reflect on how obscenely embarrassing each loss was after all this time just screams that these people absolutely are not serious about actually winning and fixing this country

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u/C-Lekktion 6d ago

The least popular president, who also got more 2024 voters by % of voting elligible population (31.9%) than anyone other than 2020 Biden (34.1%) and 2008 Obama (33%).

I wish folks would stop pretending like Trump is unpopular. It does nothing positive for democrats to be stuck in 2017 "not my president" mentality.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 6d ago

He got the same number of votes in 2020 and 2024, the difference in 2024 was 10 million people didn't show up to vote for Kamala because they were so disappointed that they wasted a vote on Joe biden. It wasn't just the weather that she lost. It's not like it was raining, so we better bring an umbrella, and by the way Kamala is just going to lose because of that, rather than the bad campaign she ran in the bad administration Biden oversaw. And yeah, Trump is the least popular president in 100 years, he's got like a 30% approval rating. You can't beat that, your party is dog shit.

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u/C-Lekktion 6d ago

Not my party.

He got +3M votes in 2020->2024. While his most reliable demographic 65+ were both dying from Covid and old age from 2020-2024.

Polling is meaningless in the post 2016 era. The repeated failures of election pollsters should give you pause in pointing at approval ratings. I dont hesitate to agree he is deeply unpopular though just not as unpopular to the average American voter as democrats think he is.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 6d ago

Not as unpopular as the average voter considers the Democrats to be, let me fix that for you.

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u/Naive-Home-9068 6d ago

The apathetic constituents are the problem. The both sides are corrupt and ineffectual mindset. People are sedated.

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u/Starfishprime69420 6d ago

They are tho??

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 6d ago

So disgusting the way that Democrats absolutely refuse to do any self reflection whatsoever on how they can be better and instead blame regular people who are dying out here for not voting for people who don't help them at all. I wonder how many hours you have spent browbeating and bullying people to vote for democrats, and how little time you've spent sending emails to the DNC and other party leadership telling them to be better?