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So now that Project 2025 is unpopular and Trump is trying to distance himself from it, has anyone else found Trump's lack of campaign promises kind of strange? Leading up to the 2016 election he made a ridiculous amount of promises. Mexico building a wall, bring back coal, lock up Hillary, repeal and replace Obamacare, balanced budget. This time around it's very different. I can't think of any promises he's made. Could it be he doesn't want to mention the promises he failed to delivered on or maybe Project 2025 is exactly what he has in mind?
I’m starting to think that he doesn’t care whether he wins or loses. He has a horde of sycophants following him that he can continue grifting off of from now until the end of his days.
I think he cares more about humiliation than almost anything else, and he sees winning as the only way to avoid not only the humiliation of losing the election but also the humiliation of facing any consequences at all for his many crimes.
I'm sure he cares. If he wins he can make many of his problems go away. On the other hand win or lose he can share his stake in DJT and be a billionaire. Doing so would screw over a lot of people so I doubt he will do that if he wins.
Yep close to 40% of the country will turn out and vote for him. He could be pulling wads of poo out of his diaper and flinging them at the audience during his rallies and this wouldn't change. They're rooting for their team good season or bad.
This idea right here needs to actually die for the sake of democracy.
No...close to 40% of the country will not turn out to vote for him. Close to 40% of people WHO VOTE will turn out to vote for him.
just under 155 million Americans voted in 2020 (out of a population of just over 331 million) which makes a voter turnout of 46%.
46% of the country (conservative and liberal) don't vote because they just don't care. Neither side truly represents them and, whether they consider themselves conservatives or liberals, they're just folks who want to live their lives and let other people live theirs; what I call the "Your fist my nose" voting bloc; people who believe (regardless of their own leanings) that "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins".
more than half of America doesn't vote. If they live a conservative lifestyle and they don't vote...they're NOT a Republican. If they have a liberal mindset and they don't vote, they're NOT a Democrat. That's literally the definition of Republican and Democrat.
But instead of actually talking to those 46% of people people, everyone just pretends that every Conservative is just as bad as a Republican and every Liberal is just as bad as a Democrat and therefore there's no point in conversing.
It's absolutist shit like that that keeps the status quo in effect and prevents any meaningful change.
Just to note that the 18+ (eligible voting) population in 2020 was only 78% of the total.
You are correct. My fault. In my over-eagerness of typing I forgot to take the under 18s into account.
My point still stands though.
Actually, only 66% of American adults voted in the 2020 election, and it had the highest voter turnout in 120 years!
I think when people are in that little private booth, there will be more republicans that vote for Kamala. The only thing they have to run on anymore is immigration, but thats not working as well as everyone thinks, IMO.
Yeah. It's just too bad the democrats are adopting the republican stance on that to somehow show republican voters that their representatives aren't actually committed to keeping those promises so much as being contrarian to democrats, as if they need any more proof of that fact and will suddenly see the light, rather than simply challenging them on their outright lies and winning over the people that actually value evidence-based rhetoric.
That’s not actually what has happened. What has happened is that we have a very real border problem going on, and we have a divided Congress, and Congress is the government body that can actually do something about the border.
Despite the divide, a bipartisan border bill was drafted and was set to go through, and at the last moment Trump told the Republicans (publicly) to tank the bill because it would make Biden and the Democrats look good.
So, with that hope dead, but with the border crisis worsening, Biden had a few not-good options for things he could actually do as the executive branch. But doing nothing was probably worse, so we ended up where we now are. Don’t let the GOP ploy of shutting down progress to make Democrats look bad be a success.
Is this "very real border problem" in the room with us right now?
It doesn't matter. His voters believe that he's the guy that somehow kept all the promises he made.
Reality doesn't really matter.
I like to assume it's related to all the lead released into the environment. The populations IQ went down 5 to 10 points due to lead poisoning from leaded gasoline in the 20th century so someone could turn a fat profit at the cost of humanity's cognitivity. Critical thinking is harder than it used to be.
His campaign promise is to turn America into a dictatorship. He doesn't need the heritage foundation or anyone else's input on that.
His voters want it SO bad. Totalitarianism comes from this exact social situation over and over in history.