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But why would you talk about the republican strategy? After-all Trump got almost as many votes as he did back in 2020, only ~2,5 million less. And it's not like their strategy wildly differed from what they did 2020. Trump got his followers heated up, he tried to coordinate with foreign entities to find kompromat, he tried to undermine the electoral process, he tested the safeguard and guard rails Jan 6. The only really new thing he did was having billionaires be more prominent in supporting him. But none of it changed his votes.
The question you should be asking is "If trump got roughly as many votes as he did back in 2020, how did he win both the electoral college and popular vote?" I don't see how that question could be answered by looking at the republican party, they didn't do anything new and their result was also the same. IMO the answer to that question lies with the democratic party. There is something the democrats did or didn't do that cost them 14 million votes (81 mil in 2020 vs 67 mil in 2024). And realistically a large part of those 14 million voters were "Fuck Trump" voters who were sick and tired of his shit. But this time Trump went full fascist and somehow people were more apathetic towards his?
I kinda agree with Hasan on the part that trying to appear more moderate when your opponent is a full blown fascist doesn't really do anything. You just come across as a lite version of fascism. Maybe democrats should've stayed more in opposition to the republicans because when the voters don't want fascism, they also don't a lighter version of fascism. I don't know what went wrong, I'm not a political pundit. I just see republicans getting roughly the same amount of votes and the democrats losing ~20% of the votes and I just don't see how that is not the democrats fault when they're the ones who lost the votes.