• nifty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Platform wise some of them are republican as we know them now even if their circles are blue. I think Clinton and Carter are what we’d consider current democrats

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      3 months ago

      Carter was pre-Reagan. This was before the neoliberals took over the Democratic Party.

      Clinton mostly accepted Republican framing of the economy, that taxes on the rich need to be low for… Reasons.

      The main argument of the neoliberals is that while conservatives are “right” about a bunch of their policies and shit, they’re just bad at running everything.

      Carter was before that shit. Back when we said that conservative policy was heartless and evil.

      Some in the Democratic Party are coming back to this simple idea.

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      3 months ago

      The “Lost popular vote” angle is only going to get worse over time. As the Senate/EC gets more and more comically lopsided in popular representation and climate change eats into the bigger Gulf Coast states, you’re going to see people winning the White House with 10-15M popular vote deficits in the next few decades.

      California alone constitutes more than 12% of the total population but less than 10% of the EC.