• e461h@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    True. Don’t forget longstanding disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, and voter intimidation. It’s also true democrats ‘vote for us, we’re not republicans’ is the laziest campaign slogan and the most their billionaire mega donors will allow. But republican wannabe facists have been stacking the deck for a long time with no repercussions. No surprise it also led us here.

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      19 hours ago

      Also Trump has a cult of personality which due to its nature is able to more or less grow continuously. It’s growth between 2020 and 2024 can be easily explained by folks who were kids during his first term and are surrounded by kin and kith who are also in the personality cult.

      Someone who was 10 in 2016 was 14 in 2020 and were 18 in 2024.