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>Nobody cares about foreign policy except for comfortable wonks. Except for all the people who insisted that trump wouldn't get us into foreign wars and demons
by mrguyorama 1y ago
>Nobody cares about foreign policy except for comfortable wonks.
Except for all the people who insisted that trump wouldn't get us into foreign wars and demonstrably haven't turned on him now that he bombed Iran, helps Israel do pretty awful things with the explicit goal of turning Gaza into a resort, and possibly has turned to helping Ukraine in it's war, which was literally a point that Democrat politicians pushing for that exact same outcome took serious heat for.
The voters want aggression and pain and harm to those they dislike, especially if Trump tells them to dislike someone. The democrats cannot cater to that desire without just abandoning all the things that make them not republican politicians. Even if they literally adopt republican policy wholesale, they still will not be elected.
The problem starts with what American voters want. As long as they want "Not democrat" and "Big strong man", democrats will not have power. I mean sure, they should probably stop putting up black woman for the presidency if they want even a chance of winning something, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Democrats are demonstrably better for the economy, and have been for a very long time, but republicans are still voted in on the back of "Better for the economy"
The exact Americans who claimed they wanted to vote for "Free speech" are pretty happy that Trump will be compelling speech on American college campuses. If the Supreme court strikes this down, they will not turn on Trump, they will turn on the Court.
>Okay, then the Democrat governor wins. I’m not seeing the problem.
Then Trump does it anyway, and the republicans in congress do not impeach him for doing crime, which the Supreme court has said is fine. The democrat governor "wins" on paper, as people continue to be deported and silenced and oppressed. ICE still roams like the SS, with no identification. Next election, Trump says "look how the left tried to stop me" and gets more votes.
Reality doesn't matter. Rhetoric does. Democrats don't have to be "Right" to get into power and fix things, they have to be popular, really really popular because of gerrymandering, and significant portions of the country make "democrat bad" significant parts of their identity.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Except for all the people who insisted that trump wouldn't get us into foreign wars and demonstrably haven't turned on him now that he bombed Iran, helps Israel do pretty awful things with the explicit goal of turning Gaza into a resort, and possibly has turned to helping Ukraine in it's war Yes. That's my point. American voters don't care about foreign policy. Pretty much no federal election in peacetime (i.e. absent a draft) is decided based on any foreign policy. > democrat governor "wins" on paper You're describing Democrats reacting to Trump. I'm describing them taking initiative. If the Democrat governor is taking initiative and they ignore the court, their initiative stands.