• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      In his first term, Trump’s plans to send troops to “war” on the southern border were thwarted. This time, he’s talking about sending up to 300,000 there

      There’s a complete sentence there you didn’t read.

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    Ah yes, the nazi wants to build concentration camps to murder the brown people. This is in line with his platform.

    The irony with this is that the vulnerable people crossing the border would otherwise pick up low wage manufacturing and menial labor jobs that create wealth for the nation and farmers, but it seems that republicans are banking on poor white babies to grow up and accept those jobs in 14 years and be good republican voters. I don’t see the pendulum swinging so hard to the right that the strategy would ever work.

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    I’m still finding it extremely unlikely he’s electable. Not saying we shouldn’t take it seriously, though.

    Over the years many conservative anti-vaxxers have died from covid, boomers are dying off, and anyone who wasn’t already a trumper isn’t exactly lining up.

    Most economic indicators are trending very well; meanwhile the abortion topic continues to backfire tremendously.

    2022 proved polls don’t sufficiently capture millennial and zoomers.

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      The problem is that’s only half the battle. What do you do when his legions of supporters decide they don’t like losing and take it out on the rest of the country?

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        Let them string themselves out. They will lose. It will backfire as did January 6th.

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      I’m GenX, and I wouldn’t answer a poll if you paid me. I will vote, and I will never vote for a Republican for the rest of my life. If there’s no Dem candidate on the ballot for a specific office, I leave it blank so they can see how many votes they’re not getting when they don’t run a candidate.