• Fester@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    “So what you’re saying is we need to move further to the right.”

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      I don’t know why everyone keeps insisting that courting the right was a stupid move. I personally know a lot of life long Republicans that got real tired of the MAGA stuff. In this matchup specifically, trying to scoop the conservative-but-not-MAGA vote makes sense by the numbers. Obviously it didn’t pan out, but at least in theory, there should be a sizeable bloc of voters there.

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        57 minutes ago

        Less people voted Trump in 2024 than in 2020. It is not that Trump won, it is that Biden/Harris lost hard.

        Trump: 74 Mio. in 2020, 73 Mio. in 2024

        Biden/Harris: 81 Mio. in 2020, 69 Mio. in 2024

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

        Seems like people on the less right side of politics also got tired after the whole “we need to stop Trump or democracy ends” messaging led to an underwhelming / genocidal and dementia struck president

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          It’s easy to look back. I sincerely think that, based on research and subsequent speculation, appealing to non-MAGA conservatives was a rational play. It explains Liz Cheney and the whole nothing-will-fundamentally-change angle.

          Again, didn’t pay off, but I’m sure research showed greater expected returns from conservatives than leftists.

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            23 minutes ago

            But these “lets poll and analyse who to peddle to” strategy has been a failure for two of the past three elections. People are tired of getting managed messages instead of a coherent platform.

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      Exactly the message I expect them to take away from this, if 2016 and 2020 are any indication. Zero introspection.