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Showing Original Post only (View all)Don't kid yourself. This is the REAL reason Democrats lost 2024 [View all]
Well, two: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, or FUD; and four years of Lies.
Trump, his inner circle, and an extremely Trump-friendly media - not just traditional media outlets like Fox News, One America News Network and the Epoch Times, but an extensive network of far-right Internet personalities - spent every second from Election Day 2020 to Election Day 2024 selling the notion that if we elected anyone but Trump your life would become a country song: you'd lose your job, your house, your truck and your guns, the only place you would be able to get food is from one of the taco trucks on every corner, your sons would all become drag queens, your daughters would all be drafted into the infantry and sent to war where they'd all die because Girls Can't Be Warriors, your dog would start shooting up fentanyl and your cat would transition into a rabbit. Or some damn thing like that. Oh, and Biden was so demented he'd sign over the entire country to the President of Lower East Goatfuck for another scoop of ice cream.
Guess what, folks? IT WORKED! It was almost like a Marx Brothers sketch...
RW: "The stock market is collapsing."
America: "Actually, the stock market is higher than it's ever been."
RW: "Biden is a doddering old fool."
America: "He's a lot sharper than guys twenty years younger than him. He's definitely sharper than Trump was."
RW: "Biden is causing the deficit to explode."
America: "The deficit is half what it was when Trump left office."
RW: "Illegals are storming our nation and Biden is doing nothing to stop them."
America: "Biden has expelled far more illegals than Trump did."
RW: "Who are you going to believe, me or your own lying eyes?"
America: "Well, since you put it that way...yeah, Biden was totally ate up. You got any of those hats left?"
All these analyses of "why the Democrats lost" that I keep reading totally leave out the fact that the Republicans spent four years putting their fifty-pound thumb on the scale in an effort to put Trump back in office.
