I think people who are acting like the fact this race is close (electorally, not in the popular vote) because Dems failed to reach out to certain voters are underestimating the fact Trumpism is built entirely on disinformation & grievance.
There are bigger issues here to tackle.
Biden spoke to working families and struggling Americans. Trump's closing message was that COVID is over, Black people will invade your suburbs, & we should lock up his enemies.
Don't tell me this is a messaging issue. This is a cultural problem of warring values and realities.
We critique campaigns but dodge the uncomfortable fact that America has a crisis of decency & critical thinking.
We have a giant empathy gap and a shameless propaganda machine that upholds a fake, dark version of reality.
THAT is the problem. The question is how do we fix it?
America is at its greatest when we recognize our original sins and strive to live up to our stated ideals.
That capacity for growth is American exceptionalism. That's when we're most respected globally.
When nearly half the country denies sins are sins, that's when we regress.
The fact that so many Americans weren't immediately repulsed by Donald Trump from the moment he announced his run in 2015 and he won more voters in 2020 after shrugging off the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, his negligence caused, points to a much deeper issue.
All that said, a clear majority of Americans overcame wild voter suppression and delivered Biden the most votes of any presidential candidate in American history and rejected Donald Trump. So take some hope from that.
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1) Lie about voter fraud in mail-in ballots. 2) Push base to vote in person. 3) Slow down mail so fewer ballots received by Nov 3. 4) Falsely declare victory on Nov 3. 5) Challenge ballots counted after Nov 3 in SCOTUS.
I think it'll fail.
Trump undermined this strategy by telling on himself.
He announced his USPS sabotage and why he appointed Barrett.
Dems responded with HUGE early turnout, getting mail ballots in early and voting in-person.
Wide Dem margins and/or early Biden red state leads would thwart this.
On top of that, the media won't play ball. In 2000, Gore had to deal with the perception he lost because the media reversed the Florida projection. That hung over his recount efforts.
That won't happen. Media and social media is prepared for Trump's false declaration of victory.
While in Michigan, one week after radical right terrorists were arrested for plotting to kidnap and do an extrajudicial execution of Governor Whitmer, President Trump attacks Whitmer and then echos a “lock her up” chant.
This is vile, disgusting, authoritarian depravity.
Saying “don’t be afraid of Covid” is the exact opposite of what he should be saying to the country right now. This man is reckless. After getting this virus he's taking it even less seriously. Absurd.
There is absolutely nothing that can happen to Donald Trump to make him have a moment of decency. Nothing.
Just because he has access to the best care in the country doesn’t mean the rest of America does. What a dangerous, foolish message to send to the Americans.
This horrifying piece confirms my theory that Trump attacked mail in voting to get his base to vote in person so he could declare victory the night of the election & claim the delayed, mostly Dem tallies are fraudulent. But it may have backfired and Dems are now voting in person.
The early in person voting lines is why I think Trump’s mail-in voting lies and attacks on the USPS backfired.
This new nickname will surely make voters forget the fact over 180k people have died due to a pandemic Trump mishandled and the economy remains in tatters.
This is seriously insane. People are really out here falsely claiming that anyone who had another underlying condition when they died of COVID-19 doesn’t count as a COVID-19 death?
They would’ve been alive if they didn’t get COVID-19. That was the cause of their death…