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Well that’s a shame. Can’t say I’m surprised though. 

Appealing to old-school conservatives, many of whom are tactical enough to vote Trump to get what they want signed into law, or racist enough to not elect even their most favourable candidate in the form of a person of colour; was such a stupid strategy. 

To think, if Kamala had pushed more progressive, she would have almost certainly won. Shame.

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The heritage foundation’s mandate for leadership, which Trump is expected to implement (as Reagan did) is pretty dark, undemocratic, theocratic stuff. Vance is into dark, undemocratic, theocratic stuff. Trump stated he wants to enact mass deportation day one via the same law that was used to intern Japanese-American citizens during world war 2. During the protests during covid he used the military to sweep up protestors in unmarked vehicles, most notably in Portland. He wants to enact tariffs that people across the economic spectrum agree will tank the US economy. And like last time when he was in power, it’s expected that people will feel emboldened to commit heinous acts in allegiance to his ideals. He is the closest leader in modern history to Mussolini’s politics, and proudly promotes white supremacist nationalism. So I think it’s going to be a real shame to have him in power. 

Note, I also don’t use Facebook and largely avoid mainstream media. I think you might have just tuned out entirely

I’ve not been reading any of the wall street journal or browsing facebook feeds so I don’t get how electing trump can make things worse except for the folks invested into democrat corrupted orgs

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I think he campaign team’s strategy, spending weeks ignoring progressive questions while shaking hands with some of the most hated people in politics (Cheney, Clinton) hurt her in predictable ways. I think the way that during the debate and several interviews she conceded to right wing framing that migrants are committing violent crime (not even true to any meaningful degree compared to citizens) hurt her with democratic voters. And by never once saying anything concrete about the validity of Palestinian existence while constantly repeating the same three or four lies about October 7th, and then ignoring the question of whether America will respect international law lost the left, muslims, young people, and the antiwar community. I don’t think she did anything well, personally.

I honestly believe that Kamala performed as best she could, I don't think there is any magic sequence of words she could have said to materially change the outcome *especially* in the last weeks.

Maybe if this was months away and she came off as a completely different person from the start, who knows.

Your opinion obviously doesn’t reflect the American electorate but we still respect it.

I disagree - I don't think there is any policy shift that would've affected this outcome. If you move an inch there are 50+ new conspiracy theories created and propagated by Trump, Musk, Jones, etc. and this is all the media people on the right consume.