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Trump didn't reshape shit.
When shit sucks, people go against the status quo.
Blame the dem party insiders who fixed the last three primaries to shove status quo candidates no one wanted down our throats. Practically while shouting "our else" in our faces the whole time. It worked once... When Trump was the incumbent so even Biden wasn't the "status quo" candidate then trump was and he lost despite going against someone who couldn't win a primary for 40 years
Then they honestly couldn't figure out why they were losing the youth vote
Stop giving fascists credit for things the only other option keep fucking up.
The problem isn't trump is some massive political force, it's that people don't have an option they actually want.
We haven't run a good candidate for decades, neither party wants the election to be about how great their candidate is, just how shitty the other party is.
I get while Republicans do it, but the only explanation for Dems to do it is they're playing for donations not votes, I just can't believe they can blow thru a billion plus every four years and can't do any better than this shit
Dems run national elections like a stepdad play Shoots and Ladders and desperately wanting the kids to like him, winning just isn't even on the list of priorities.
That's a very one-sided take. It leaves out one of the most important factors, the media and their role in censoring and magnifying news to fit the political identities of their consumers. Had they been accurately reporting on Trump's actions and results first-term, no human being in their right minds would have elected him a second time.
You realize the first ones to boost trump was Hillary and the DNC....
Right?
Like I shouldn't assume people lived thru it, it was 9 years ago, you might not have been paying attention to politics then.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-before-presidential-run-2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch/2015/08/05/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clinton-donald-trump-phone-call-report-2015-8?op=1
They knew people didn't like Hillary and that nothing would change that.
So they found the worst person possible and talked him into running to make Hillary be the best choice. And still fucked it up.
Hillary is about the only thing you are right in. Who runs a candidate who has been so publicly cuckolded (cuckqueaned to be precise) to such a position of authority? Clinton was literally ran out of the office because of it (of course, history proved it only matters for one party).
Yet, even your last statement is wrong and conspiratorial. They ran Hillary because they considered Trump to be a joke candidate. And in that election, it actually made sense that Trump won because disillusionment with the system pushed people to vote for joke candidates. You are trying to suggest "dem party insiders" "found the worst person possible and talked him into running".
But big money was trying to push corrupt influence into the US government long before through movements like the Tea Party that preceded MAGA. You aren't completely wrong, the US should have switched to a representative democracy instead of winner takes all if it wanted reforms long ago. Even in the now propaganda laden Germany its nature as a representative democracy is still helping to prevent the fascists from taking over again. It's not invincible, but it helps add choice and resistance against fascist tendencies.