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Democrats are held to a higher standard than Republicans even by people who claim progressive ideals.
"Not letting fascism win" is the lowest standard imaginable, and they couldn't clear it
I bet that was entirely unrelated to the constant drumbeat of "leftists" saying that voting third party to show the Democrats their mistake of not being everything they wanted them to be. Absolutely no relation to the people who literally told me they wanted trump to win because it would hurt the Democrats.
And that's just what I saw on Lemmy. Mainstream ~~brainwashing~~ social media platforms are magnitudes worse. Add in the billionaire media owners giving him millions of dollars in free advertising, and I'm not surprised at this outcome.
They provided no ammo with which to push back against the frustration. They fucked up constantly over the last couple years
After months of posts about the "Democrats being complicit in a genocide," I'm not going to pretend that "don't let fascism win" was somehow the standard they were being held to.
We all knew well ahead of time just how much worse Republicans would be.
You overestimate how foolish people were. The liberals and leftists knew, but the disengaged voters who won Trump the election didn't. I talked to some of these people. It was easy for them to put their hope in Trump because it was hard to put any hope in Democrats. TikTok bans and genocide complicity were but a few bricks in the wall. It was a pattern of disregard that few could ignore.
Liberalism died with a pathetic whimper