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Critique (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don't, you weren't paying attention.

Plenty of us were critiquing Clinton's campaign on those merits and were consistently talked down to in shocker the same way we're being talked down to now. Shocker, she lost. I remember saying a few weeks before the election "We're about to get Brexited." I put my vote down for Clinton, because Trump is fucking insane, and that was clear before he was President. It was clear in the fucking 1980's.

Being able to critique our leaders is supposed to be what is the difference between us and conservative voters. They're the cult who unquestioningly believes all the bullshit that comes out of Trump's mouth and diapers. I find it weird that people think we should be more like them in regards to our leaders like that would be a good thing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The irony is, this would have worked if she wasn't Hillary

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People attribute a lot more competence to the DNC then they've really demonstrated.

Like yeah HRC might have legitimately thought that way about Trump, but if her own campaigning didn't win the election for herself suggesting it's what put Trump over the finish line or even that it was of any significant contribution is pretty disingenuous.

Not to mention how the DNC and HRC aren't able to mind control voters, like 99% of attempts to make Trump into the DNC boogeyman's fault ignore the choice voters made to vote for him or to just not vote for Clinton, and the "shoved Clinton down our throats" narrative is pretty racist since it basically casts Clinton's primary win through significant support by the black and poc vote as illegitimate.

We almost had a double down on that shit in 2020 but the "low information voter" dog whistlers just decided to blame everything on Clyburn this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, I wouldn't really say my critique is that they're "competent." Hubris does not imply competence.

I would say elevating someone like Trump because you think it's an easy win falls under "incompetent."

Clinton isn't the only reason he won, but acting like her campaign didn't have an impact on Trump, and that her campaign centering him isn't also part of why he ended up the nominee is acting like she never had any influence or impact at all, is also not true.

Clinton's campaign literally had press access and so to act like her campaign didn't influence what the media discussed is also brazenly ignoring what happened. Did she make Trump President? No. Did she give him way more opportunity to win than he would have had otherwise? Yes.

You don't have to be competent for that.

[–] Lauchs 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Ehhhh, attributing the boatload of free coverage trump racked up as the result of the Clinton campaign seems a little silly.

Every network ran trump coverage because it was ratings gold. I remember many non political friends who couldn't wait to watch the debates for the sheer idiocy.

I'd say it's true to say that Clinton wanted to elevate trump. But it also seems ludicrous to suggest the only reason he got through the republican primaries was because of Clinton's deep and friendly contacts in the right wing traditional and social media wings. (Just imagine the poor Clinton staffer calling up Breitbart.)

Edit: Just look at the list of press contacts. Do you think any Republican primary voters were waiting on Rachel Maddow or Ronan Farrow's opinion?!?

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