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"I'm so leftist I'm voting for Trump" --some young voters unironucally
More like bots and bad faith commentators.
Unfortunately, people like Peter Coffin, InfraHaz, and Caleb Maupin are confirmed to be not bots.
Those are what the Bad Faith addition is for.
I want to believe this, I do, but that would mean that [email protected] is filled with nothing but
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That describes like half of Lemmy though
There were sadly people in 2016 who protest voted for Trump to get back at the DNC for not nominating Bernie, even when Bernie begged them not to.
Is there any evidence of that? I know that 12% of people who voted for Sanders in the primary ended up voting for Trump in 2016, but where's the evidence that they were ever Democrats? It's just as possible that they were Republican-leaning voters who were attracted to Sanders' message, or trying to sabotage the Democratic primary. That's a really good narrative for Clinton supporters to soothe their chagrin at the electoral college loss, but as that article points out, that number is actually pretty par for the course in elections.
Have you met any irl?
Like 12% of Bernie voters. I imagine meeting 12% of any demographic is rare.
I don't think enough Bernie voters flipped their votes to cause the Trump win. I do believe that many of them stayed home though, but I blame that on the DNC running Hillary Clinton on the most deenergizing platform. I did vote for her, but I didn't consider her a real progressive. She was just the status quo option when Trump was dementia flavored fascism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%E2%80%93Trump_voters
I've never seen the Eiffle Tower IRL, but that doesn't change the fact that it exists.