Then why campaign at all?
The problem with Harris is that she was perceived as an empty suit, unable to stray away from her script and sticking to an administration that was clearly judged defavorably, rightly or not.
The two actual choices they had were "continuity with the current administration" and "the previous administration." They thought the current administration was bad so they went with the other one.
Not really.
This just underlines how bad the Harris campaign actually did. They were running against a walking, talking disaster. Trump did not run a good campaign, and yet he won quite easily in the end.
You really don't need to convince people you are better than a convicted felon who also tried to organise an insurrection. As bad of a candidate Kamala is, Trump should have not even registered on the polling. They are in different universes integrity wise. The fact that this did not happen reflects extremely badly on the general voter in US.
If this was true, Harris would have won easily.
I mean obviously it isn't true after the result. Hence the point that the average US voter is kinda nuts.
It obviously reflects poorly on the electorate, no argument there. But I think a better description than "nuts" would be "disengaged and uninformed". Substance and policy is nothing in US presidential elections now. Messaging is everything. And that is something Trump did far better than Harris.
The future is bleak. Social media algorithms have introduced people like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson to young and mid age men and female varieties for young women. Most of the voters don't even know 1/10th of the info out there, they just know they hate the democratic nominee and think trump is better for the economy because their algorithm told them that. I'm seeing it here in Canada. Otherwise normal, smart people with the absolute worst political takes about how Trump is the best option. I ask for one example and they can't give it.
I really do hope this mode of thinking is on its last legs. It's just not very useful.
Amen.
Disagree. What should have happened is that established Republicans got rid of Trump. When that didn’t happen, Trump should have lost in a landslide, forcing the Republican party to normalize.
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet” - Abraham Lincoln
I'm not sure where people get these "He never said it" gotchas. There's just no way to know.
Now, this is unlikely to have been said considering the internet was not a thing then. But even then, we can't say for sure.
They usually come from the fact that Jeffries has the exact same access to quotes from Winston Churchil as general public does and if hundreds of people actually digging for that quote can't find a reasonable source, Jeffries probably didn't find it either and just ran with a shitty source, because it's much more important for him that a speech sounds cool than that it's historically accurate.
I guess? We can't say for sure that we don't live in a simulation with milions of Churchils reenacting the "infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters" kind of deal. It's just not a useful assumption to make.
Chances are that he did say this, just not the one that used to be President!
