President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Trying to keep things civil ...
The economy and the "Please don't call me a Nazi" explanations might be their explicit explanations of their "Why I voted for Trump."

I don't think I'm alone, however, in suspecting that if inflation were microscopic, the arrows on Ragu's money-supply kitchen whiteboard were heading in the right direction and Democrats didn't hurt their feelings, they'd still have found a reason not to vote for the Black woman. Now, they wouldn't say it was because she was a Black woman, but it might just be that she was a Black woman.

 

Four weeks ago, too. In much of Florida, anyway.

 

In 2020, Trump loses and the racists riot
In 2024, Trump wins and they stay quiet
They say Trump is so savvy, but I don't buy it

 

It came to me last night that Trump only lost in 2020 because of the pandemic and how he botched it. So I have no idea how many voters may have thought, "OK, we punished him for that. Now we will punish Biden and his surrogate Harris for inflation." The inflation was part of the pandemic, really, but that's a tough connection for people to make.
I can understand why voters could overlook Trump's scumbag nature. Most of them are as transactional as he is. What's most discouraging and I think the root cause of the distress many here and elsewhere feel is that attempting to illegally seize power in 2021 including the use of a violent mob storming the Capitol, in no way disqualified Trump from returning to office in the minds of a majority of voters. To me, that means my follow citizens are not patriotic. They don't believe our system of government and the rights it provides are more important than their economic situations and their social anxieties.

 

It’s been like the that for four years?

 

thousands of hours of diner-based forensics to understand why teh mad lol y u mad tho

 

Myopic hatred of Biden-Harris just empowers the absolutely worst people

 

Does anyone really think the prosecutions helped him win this and maybe it would have been best not to hold him accountable because it looked like a witch hunt to his supporters?

 

I sure don't. The MAGA base's persecution complex is so strong that if it wasn't this, it'd be something else. And the swing and new voters who put Trump over the top certainly didn't rank it as a concern during the campaign.

 

Help me out, @I Should Coco . You told us last night that we should try to find out the Trump voters' motivations. But I'm having some trouble with this one. Your thoughts, please.

 

I haven't really posted anything about the election. I honestly can't even articulate my thoughts on it other than disbelief it what the country I love has embraced.
Like others, I have to unplug from it. If a good portion of the country wants to let one cult leader drag down an entire nation, so be it. I refuse to let him dominate every hour of every day of my life for another four years.

If you need me, I'll be over in one of the weather-related, motorsports, or kayaking threads.