As a non US citizen I'm genuinely curious: how could people vote for this convicted, deranged, senile, racist, homophobic grandpa? Like what arguments do they use?
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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Inflation. "The economy" was the #1 polled issue among Republicans by far. We saw this as well with Bush and Trump's win in 2016 - for a lot of people, a scary amount, if you just promise "hey I'll make the economy better."
The media normalized him. Just like they did to Hitler.
Inflation.
But I think racism and homophobia as well as religion is another big reason. It just was articulated a lot less by people.
That means Trump will fix the inflation and Kamala wouldn't?
No it means because the inflation happened on the watch of the Democrats that the Democrats are getting blamed for it even though a lot of it was caused by how Trump handled COVID.
But US voters have a very short memory. And Trump is a very good liar.
Also I forgot to mention gender played a huge role in this. A lot of this is about misogyny and racism underneath the surface.
Unfortunately, the Democrats should have ran a white man. Because that's the state of this country really.
I had so much hope for climate change and abortions rights and this burger man wins. Wtf is this state of world. The world will be on fire soon and the people can no longer do anything peaceful to stop it.
It is important to escape our self-built echo chambers. Many independent journalists and commentators spoke of an increase in minority support for Trump and Harris not reaching the Biden numbers.
We must focus on building up a grassroots movement that is for the working class and moving away from the duopoly.
Stay hopeful!
Young people too. Being an asshole is starting to get popular again. And a running narrative has been that Trump's policies were good, people just don't like him because he's an asshole. And 18 year olds don't even remember the "grab them by the pussy" tape or anything he did that first year because they were 10.
Wtf is this state of ~~world~~.
US. State of the US. We don't need latent american exceptionalism to add to the problem.
No, world. Where the US "leads" a lot of the rest of the world will follow, and the MAGAs are Hell-bent in leading us all off a +4°C cliff.
You are not wrong Russia invading Ukraine Isreal invading Palestine and kicking China playing games with Taiwan Everyone globally saying how but jobs like Trump are sprouting up. It hurts that I can't see one place to go or feel safe from the muricans.
No evidence, but this smells fishy
You're the only other person I've seen mention this at all. I said it earlier, you, me, everyone, everyone's cousin, and also the FBI were very well aware that Trump & Co were definitely attempting to cheat the election, they've proven their intent to do so, and proper certification and electoral votes aren't even until mid December. I don't understand how this is possibly being uncontested right now. There are way less votes than everyone expected, it comes out in Trump's favor with exactly the thin margin he needed to win, and everyone is just running with "Yep he's won we know this 3 hours after election night there is no need to follow up further"
I, for one, don't believe a bit of this for at least the next month and expect some major findings in the next few weeks. I also might just be on the copium, who knows.
Can't Harris request a recount?
Trump is the only US president to ever face and beat two female candidates. Quite the record if i must say