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In states where he won, it was either a blood-red wave, or barely past 50%.
Wait, did a major outlet just use "lie" in its headline?
I'm impressed. Even for an op-ed.
Anyway, this cannot be repeated enough. I'm already sick of people trying to say it's "historic", it's a "landslide", etc....give me a break.
Who cares about the label? The only descriptor that matters is "President-elect Trump" and that one is not in dispute. The rest is either semantics or copium that doesn't impact anything in a material fashion.
That's pedantic. They won the trifecta of government. The definition of landslide is academic at this point.
the point is to wake us up to that our resistance coalitions needn't be small
resistance coalitions
Good luck with that. The last chance for an organized resistance was the 90's before we put in mass surveillance. It's game set and match at this point. The only chance now is maybe the hardcore blue states succeed, but that didn't end well last time either.
the best time was 25 years ago. the second best time is right now. it's a lot like planting a tree.
A resistance coalition isn't insurrection when it's a left leaning coalition.
It might only be pedantic/academic if the term was only being used in an educational setting. Instead, it's bandied about nearly every day since the election, and it does need to stop.
It's not academic, it's relative to the various examples he cites in the article
Half of Lemmy seems to believe that Trump won by a landslide. Remember a comment upvoted like crazy yesterday talking about how hard he won.
I mean I get it, the fact that he won by any amount is horrifying but nuance exists. I'm glad to see this article attempting to clear it up
Well, however you want to put, in terms of control Republicans won The House The Senate The Presidency
So yeah that's a lot. Whether it's because Trump "won" it or the Democrats "lost" it, the end result is going to be pretty heavy
What's being discussed here though is the margin he won by. Which is smaller than many seem to suggest
Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968…
What about Trump and Bush 2 both losing the popular vote yet winning the presidency?
It's ok for liberals to criticize trump, but revealing the sham of "democracy" is a few steps too far.
Too late. It's that whole thing where it takes ten times the effort to undo misinformation than to introduce it (or however that goes). This narrative is here to stay. Those who try to counter it will just be in the role of the "Well Ackchyually" guy in the conversation
Well, facts do matter. And as much as possible, sane people need to push back on fascists just redeclaring terms to mean something else. They keep trying to do the same thing with the term insurrection. They have been calling anything and everything an "insurrection" to try to dilute the fact that their so-called president stoked a real insurrection.
I'm not in disagreement
Lies are a crucial foundation for fascism.
That horse left the stable a long time ago. Once the MAGA crowd latches onto something they don't let go. They're still claiming TFG won in 2020, for crying out loud.
Doesn't mean everyone else has to coddle them in their stupid fantasies.
Yeah but history is written by the victor so that’ll be cleared up by the Trump regime eventually
Did Mehdi really write this on the 3rd? I've heard him saying this at least a week ago. Seems kinda pathetic to rehash this over and over again.