As a history buff, I’m shocked at the rapidity of the decline of American liberal democracy.

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badminton · 61-69, MVIP

Trump says things that would be political suicide for any other politician, Republican or Democrat. Yet he somehow gets away with it. Trump has openly said he wants to be a dictator. He wants to suspend the constitution. He has said grossly crude things about women. He made a death threat against an American General Mark Miley. And he instigated an attack on the Capital Jan 6th, 2021. Plus he's a convicted felon, with 34 convictions. How can someone with that record be president?!

RedBaron · M

@badminton By running a very effective campaign against a weaker opponent.

It worked against Clinton and Harris, but not against Biden.

SW-User

@badminton An unrenlenting barrage of lies and hate restored him to office. Average Americans have become too unlearned and gullible.

RedBaron · M

@SW-User Simply put, Trump reached both white and nonwhite working class voters more effectively than Harris, and many of those people came to view the Democrats as condescending and elitist.

Understanding this is understanding exactly why Trump won.

SW-User

@RedBaron Harris' mistake was concentrating too hard on womens rights and not enough on the other problems. She might as well have been pushing for free tampons.