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I don’t think the guy who said Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. was going to have a shot on the Democratic side.

• danbolt 6y ago
  Yeah, I was a little surprised at the assumption that Trump would be feasible in a Democratic Primary. Or, a larger segment of the party wanted to support people like Sanders and Warren for a specific ideological reasons. Plus, a lot of Democrats felt Biden’s views and past behaviour made him unsuitable to be president. It’s hard to imagine those same factions in the party nominating Trump. I’m not an American though, so I may be missing some context.
• pontus 6y ago
  I'm not necessarily saying that it could have happened, I'm mostly exploring how it would have played out if it had. The left seems to suggest that only an immoral (or possibly dumb) person could possibly vote for Trump and that we need to put country over politics. That's easy to say when putting country over politics happens to agree with your own political views. I don't know if many democrats would have voted for a person like Ted Cruz in 2016 if Trump (or someone like him) had been the democratic candidate. I can almost certainly say that I personally would have played the same games of semantics that the right was playing then (and still are). There's a lot of "right-shaming" going on when I suspect that it's just an accident that the right was the side that fell for it this time. The left should be extra vigilant to make sure that we don't fall for it ourselves.