If he keeps this up, he’ll drag the entire Republican Party down with him in 2024.

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    Doubtful. The more he rants and the crazier it sounds, the more his supporters love it. They foam at the mouth for his schtick.

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      Flood the media with as much insane rambling as you can. That way, when you tell the truth, it still sounds insane.

      His supporters will pick what they want from the salad he spits out and eat it up. Meanwhile, his dissenters have to work through it to make sense of it.

      He’s been playing psych games since day one.

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      It is 100% worth remaining hungry, remaining diligent, remaining skeptical, remaining active.

      But we are in a very different climate right now. I think the big difference is that unlike 2015, people have actually seen what a trump presidency looks like. There are absolutely republicans that will refuse to vote for him, and he was bad enough that he will drive record high turnout from democrats.

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    To me, this article seems to be arguing that Trump will probably end up in the General election, but will lose by a wide margin because he has become more extreme and has pending legal action against him. I would say this sounds pretty similar to what many argued in 2016, though circumstances are admittedly very different now. What hasn’t changed is my lack of faith in a large percentage of the American population who either don’t vote or vote in hatred.

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      It’s weird how people still bring up 2016 like 2020 didn’t happen. I get it, we can’t know for sure and people got burned that one time. But he’s hardly a winner.

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        In fact he lost the popular vote both times and the candidates he backed during the midterms lost for the most part. His entire track record is losing.

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      2016 was pure gift. He was as surprised as everyone else when he won. He’s all in now, it’s that or prison.

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      Yes, and Trump isn’t a unique evil, in terms of policy, he’s no different than Bush Jr or Regan. The rich people on TV just don’t like that he’s loud and rude.

      Trump is a monster, yes, but considering all the other candidates from 2016, we could’ve gotten a lot worse, Like Santorum, or Huckabee. Or Ted “bomb the middle east until the sand glows” Cruz. Or Hillary “single payer will never come to pass” Clinton

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      Bernie was/is too old to run for president. He was also less moderate than Biden. I’d argue Biden and Trump are too old to be president.

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        Biden is pretty fucking old too. The oldest to ever be elected. He has pretty severe dementia too. I know a lot of old folks that went down that road.

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          “Severe dementia” is far different than the old person behavior that Biden occasionally exhibits, which is like, saying the wrong word once or twice while speaking for half an hour. The “he doesn’t know what room he’s in!!1!” claims are absurd. When you listen to him talk for a while he’s perfectly coherent, though people like to cherry pick 1-2 lines out of context to try to pretend he’s doddering and incoherent.

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      2016, I agree. He was cheated and could’ve beaten Trump.

      2020? Not so sure. Even Bernie himself admitted that Joe Biden’s pro working class policies and bottom up, middle out economic plan was very similar to his. He even said that his campaign team was so glad that Joe Biden didn’t run in 2016. Bernie himself stated that Joe Biden was so sincerely for the average working American, that even though Biden was basically “Bernie Lite”, he wasn’t sure he could win against Joe.

      If we look at what Joe Biden’s been doing for this country, including passing the infrastructure bills, limited gun restrictions, and the Inflation reduction act, we see that he is kind of “Bernie Lite” and honestly, it’s SO much better than Trump, that I’ll take it.

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        Super Delegates. The primary in 2016 was rigged for Hillary and the 2020 primary was rigged for Biden.

        The general was legit in both of those though.

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          Superdelegates didn’t decide the 2016 election. And if you have any evidence of 2020 “rigging”, I’d love to see it.

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        That’s beside the point. The DNC rigged the primaries to hands the nomination to Biden. I wish they would spend as much energy fighting the fascists for once.

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          The only difference between the two parties is what they virtue-signal about.

          They’re both in favor of more war, they’re both against fixing broken things here at home. Remember when Obama Pretended that Flint Michigan’s water was fine? Or Fracking causing flammable tap water in the middle of the country?

          Okay, Well Trump and republicans didn’t lift a fucking finger to fix either of those issues, and Biden probably isn’t even aware of those two problems. The richest country in the world has a large number of whole states now with toxic chemicals in their water supplies.

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    I have doubts. I can already see a low Dem turnout on the horizon. They need to push the mail-in ballot advantage again now that many are back in the office.

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      They’re never going to do that when the fund raising numbers went through the roof under Trump.

      Did you know that Pelosi and Schumer gave the Trump administration an even bigger military budget inscrease than they were even asking for on two separate occasions?

      Schumer fast-tracked all of Trump’s appointments too.

      So even they don’t believe the Russiagate bullshit they’re still repeating. If Russiagate was real, why did Biden win? I guess Biden is a Putin puppet.

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    Ah yes, because the stable genius depended so heavily on his marbles when he won the first time.

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      The role of Democrats is to be as ineffective as possible but still retaining the appearance of Independence from republicans.

      Biden is the worst choice, by necessity. If they picked a better candidate, they would have to represent.

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        By the survey numbers that’s untrue, in terms of the share of voters. Gallup polls indicate the share of people who identify as Democrats has decreased consistently for about a decade, with a heavier decrease in the past three years.. Republicans have remained consistently lower than Dems, but that margin has shrunk considerably over the past decade. Independents make up the largest (and only growing) share of votes.

        Granted, this is just survey identification. I have no doubt voter registrations are much more partisan. But, I’d argue being de facto corralled into one of two political parties due to voter registration requirements isn’t the same as a “growing party”.

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          This is a very weird poll

          in terms of the share of voters

          I would argue that the huge amount of independents is everyone saying that they don’t want to be pigeon holed into anything online. No one wants that mail. We’ll never know how many R’s we’ve lost to the pandemic either, a lot of those states didn’t keep track of the deaths. I would never go on a Biden is awesome tour but he’s done way better than I ever thought he would/could. Trump & Desantis are actively and openly destroying democracy. So even if I call myself an independent, it’s an easy vote.

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            So I hope I don’t come off as too aggressive or anything here, I just want to combat as much of the classic Reddit misinformation while this space is still small

            the huge number of independents is everyone saying that they don’t want to be pigeon holed into anything online

            That isn’t how a Gallup poll works. It’s a randomized phone survey with elected participation. Now obviously there’s inherent self-selection bias with any such survey, but it’s still at least an indicator of trends. This type of poll is the best for assessing party sentiment, which is what the subject of the article is about and what my original comment was addressing.

            We’ll never know how many Rs we’ve lost to the pandemic either

            I don’t understand why people started thinking this? States may have done a bad job reporting cause of deaths, but the death still gets reported. Like… do people think there are a ton of unmarked graves in Florida or something?

            Excess deaths modeling over 2020-22 means it’s pretty easy to figure out how many people died in the pandemic. Whether those people were R voters can be reasonably predicted from county/demographic makeup, such as this study here..

            But to your point, if all we care about is who votes for whom in 2024, we can just survey that too. And surveys from basically every site, R or D funded, have the race at a dead heat with Biden only slightly edging out Trump.. Now as we learned in 2016, polls can be very, very wrong, but they’re really all we’ve got at this juncture.

            Again, hope you don’t read this as aggressive, I just want people to be better informed and stop listening to blog posts like they’re legitimate truths.