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While it failed politically and people voted for him I think they did because they didn’t have a good enough alternative ans in our two party system that’s what you get. If you vote at all you end up picking the donkey or the elephant.

It doesn’t change the facts though. He’s a bad dude. (Convicted of sexual assault remember) A transactional dude. A guy who doesn’t care about America or anything. He just wanted to stay out of jail and make his friends rich.

Now we have weirdo right wing folks from silicon valley going to run things with a guy who admires our enemies and who has “a concept of a plan” on how to solve things.

It never ceases to amaze me how folks on HN saw Trump as their coming out moment: “oh it’s cool now I can let my friends right wing techno libertarian flag fly, the real estate tv mogul from NYC is now president and is allied with white supremacists and mysoginy. I like those things!” ;-)

I think people again didn’t have a viable alternative, didn’t think he could be so bad (he will be), and are just apathetic to enough and (erroneously) thinking that Biden’s policies on the economy — they blamed him for inflation — were so bad the tax cut and spend guy is going to do anything good for the economy.

82M people voted for Biden in 2020…