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Trump is president due to suspicion of democracy, not because of it. A plurality did not put him in the White House, the Electoral College did. I agree that it
by cmurf 10y ago
Trump is president due to suspicion of democracy, not because of it. A plurality did not put him in the White House, the Electoral College did.
I agree that it is a trap to only blame Trump voters. Some 43% of eligible voters did not vote at all. Some Democrats didn't vote either because they thought it was a sure thing Trump would not win, or due to their own disaffection with a politically flawed candidate (without any respect to what degree this is deserved). And also the general political dialog in the country is fairly abysmal. Many things have conspired to bring us to this point.
I think Democrats, liberals, progressive, moderates, are all best off focusing on policy disputes rather than personal ones.