Just to be clear, this wasn’t a “landslide” by any means. When the votes are tallied, it looks like about a 1.4% margin in favor of Trump. Decades of work by the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Russian disinformation and wannabe oligarchs delivered the Presidency to Trump. There are no Democratic leaning equivalents. In an effort to appea…
Just to be clear, this wasn’t a “landslide” by any means. When the votes are tallied, it looks like about a 1.4% margin in favor of Trump. Decades of work by the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Russian disinformation and wannabe oligarchs delivered the Presidency to Trump. There are no Democratic leaning equivalents. In an effort to appeal to wider audiences, @msnbc, @cnn, and NYT and WaPo all became more right leaning. Together these institutions convinced millions of Americans that their economy was tanking and that “others” were taking their jobs. That labels like “fascist” were just more political mud slinging and had no real meaning. I don’t think this was a Middle Class phenomenon, exclusively. This is much deeper than that. Democrats publish their policies during election cycles: the GOP is willing to work decades to shape the environment before, during and after elections. That’s it.
Well, GOP policies aren’t popular but the Uber wealthy want to win. The better idea would have been to change policies, but here we are. They’ve been at this for decades, creating a favorable environment and they’ve succeeded. I wish the Dems would work as hard to preserve our democracy.
Lydia, they have been at it for about 45 years and in the meantime they have gave us unfunded wars, free trade, trickle down, interest on the national debt... They were well compensated!
Just to be clear, this wasn’t a “landslide” by any means. When the votes are tallied, it looks like about a 1.4% margin in favor of Trump. Decades of work by the Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Russian disinformation and wannabe oligarchs delivered the Presidency to Trump. There are no Democratic leaning equivalents. In an effort to appeal to wider audiences, @msnbc, @cnn, and NYT and WaPo all became more right leaning. Together these institutions convinced millions of Americans that their economy was tanking and that “others” were taking their jobs. That labels like “fascist” were just more political mud slinging and had no real meaning. I don’t think this was a Middle Class phenomenon, exclusively. This is much deeper than that. Democrats publish their policies during election cycles: the GOP is willing to work decades to shape the environment before, during and after elections. That’s it.
Republicans are better at lying than Democrats are at telling the truth.
Well, GOP policies aren’t popular but the Uber wealthy want to win. The better idea would have been to change policies, but here we are. They’ve been at this for decades, creating a favorable environment and they’ve succeeded. I wish the Dems would work as hard to preserve our democracy.
Lydia, they have been at it for about 45 years and in the meantime they have gave us unfunded wars, free trade, trickle down, interest on the national debt... They were well compensated!
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