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Maybe somewhat indirectly, but the US population did elect those people in the usual sense of the word.
by tgv 1y ago
Maybe somewhat indirectly, but the US population did elect those people in the usual sense of the word.
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- analog31 1y agoThey "elected" candidates who were chosen for them.
- 0xTJ 1y agoThey chose between two candidates chosen via the US presidential primaries. Party members vote for delegates, who vote for a presidential candidate. Republicans chose Trump, then people who voted Republican at the election chose him over the alternative=. He did not hide his fascist and dictatorial desires and he was open about how he wanted to dismantle the government. When he lost in 2020 he threw a fit and tried to have people do a coup. People did in fact elect him, I can just hope that his actions don't leave too much lasting damage here in Canada. (Maybe de-funding US science will help start to reverse decades of brain drain.)
- cvwright 1y agoNitpick: Only one candidate was chosen by voters in the primary. The other was selected by party leaders after the primary was over.
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