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He won the popular vote in a year when incumbents across the world ate shit at the polls because of COVID inflation. The US had the smallest drop in support fo

• tekla 2y ago
  And yet he still won
  • vkou 2y ago
    It's a winner take all two-party election where a 3% swing in sentiment results in a complete blowout. Generally one of the two participants wins those. There's a really serious systemic problem with the party that chose him in its primaries, and there is nothing to prevent it from happening again, but my point is that a 49.8% mandate given the circumstances is... Well, it's not one of overwhelming sentiment.