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  • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    To be fair, he didn’t win his first election by getting the most votes, and neither did Trump.

    The Republicans realized during the Reagan administration that they would soon be unable to win the presidency with a majority of votes and took many steps to undermine the Democratic process. Voter suppression, purges, intimidation, voter ID laws, all of that began with Reagan.

    Bush the elder was the last to win a “democratic” victory. If it weren’t for 9/11, Bush wouldn’t have been able to win his second election either. That fact always blows my mind. Like people rallied around the incompetent fool who managed to ignore warnings and let a terrorist strike happen only to then go on and invade the wrong country multiple times and spend trillions of dollars on nothing.

    • FoxBJK@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      I don’t disagree. I’m just calling out the whole “things will change when conservatives start dying off” trope because people have been banking on that for 20 years.

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      9 months ago

      " ya don’t change horses midstream 🤠" was a literal campaign ad phrase back then I remember

      Boomers have a lot of lead accumulated in their brains, not entirely their fault

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        That was so dumb. We literally had a President die in office during the biggest war humanity has ever seen, and we still won. Not only that, but Truman was kept out of the loop on a lot of things (“What’s the Manhattan Project all about?”).