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    Yet another person with a lack of understanding of why Trump won.

    He got about the same amount of votes as in the last election. It’s the Democrats that couldn’t get people to vote for them.

    What I think were the main causes are not dropping Biden sooner, failure at acknowledging his shortcomings, failure at taking a stance on Palestine and attempting to appease the right instead of their core voters.

    None of these have much to do with zoomers.

    EDIT: Compared to 2020, Republicans gained 3.08 million votes, while Democrats lost 6.27 million.

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      How many didn’t turn out due to voters suppression and intimidation? How many didn’t vote because they believed it wouldn’t count? America is a flawed democracy

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      Yep. Die hard dem supporters will blame anyone except the actual party who put on a total loser of a campaign. Noone is to blame for the dems losing except, shocker, the dems.

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            . You know, fun, wild concept. But reality is complex and people who try and reduce things down to a single blameable target are simple and easily manipulated.

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              Ha. Like all the dem bootlickers who have been manipulated into blaming their fellow americans rather than the party that actually made the choice to sell out the country? Keep being manipulated.

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                I see you couldn’t read my comment. So, let me play it for you straight. Blame can be shared. The people are an issue. The party is also an issue. Both should be blamed.

                People who think it’s just the party being terrible are ignoring the decades of work the Republicans put in to manipulate dip shits. Like you.

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                  Well thats incredibly reductive and disingenuous. I never said the people weren’t to blame, but theres a whole lot of really annoying people running around acting like the whole election is the fault of uncommited/palestine protest voters, and the democrats are blameless and ran a perfect campaign. Out of those two groups, there’s only one whose actions actually could have altered the outcome of the election when you take it down to the numbers, and thats the democratic party. Setting aside the fact rhat they implicitly have blame because its their only job to convince people to vote for them, they still wouldn’t have won even if every single protest voter had voted democrat. But even if that werent the case, the career politicians bear vastly more responsibility for the outcome of elections than any individual person.

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                    You explicitly stated ONLY the democratic party was to blame and no one else. You cannot just ignore what you said lmfao. You did say, EXPLICITLY that they weren’t to blame . I wasn’t being disingenuous. You are, right now.

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                    Overall agreed, but:

                    I never said the people weren’t to blame

                    Except in your first comment where you said nobody is to blame but the party?