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by danaris 509 days ago
That appears to be moving the goal posts.

In your grandparent post, you simply stated that more than half the country support Trump; viciousvoxel was refuting that by pointing out that less than half the country voted for him.

How many actively opposed him is immaterial to your initial statement.

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What they meant through the imprecision of their language was that an election was conducted and he won by the rules of the contest, and now as the winner he is exercising authority commensurate with his new position.
More than half of voters that voted for Democrat or Republican voted for Trump.

Maybe my language was imprecise, I could agree with you there, but I don’t think the other people matter.