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by xp84 12 days ago
All the tariffs were stupid, Trump is mostly stupid and completely corrupt, but voters felt a justifiable need to punish the Democrats for a presidency where they were gaslit every day. Inflation? What inflation? And the economy is great, actually! Biden’s mind is sharp as a tack! etc. That’s before you get into culture war social issues topics, where the Democrats were miles away from the average non-blue-haired voter. And not only that, Dems ran another campaign with a tone of “Everyone who disagrees with me is an evil and/or stupid bigot” - H. Clinton’s winning strategy.

I was glad to see Harris lose, as I thought losing to Trump would sufficiently humiliate all those responsible for pushing the asinine platform and unlikeable candidate on us into changing their ways. Sadly, Dems still learned absolutely nothing and changed nothing. “A perfect campaign.”

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Case in point, the several proud Democrats I've offended, who can't refute any of this reality, the downvote being their only copium.
It's just the same old "blame everyone but the idiots that voted for Trump" excuse that was stupid in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

I didn't downvote your comment (and couldn't even if I wanted to because it's a direct reply), but I did think the comment was pretty silly.

As long as you believe only "idiots" vote for the other party, you still don't get it.