DDHQ made the call after declaring Trump the projected winner of Pennsylvania and Alaska, which got him to exactly 270 electoral votes.
As a non US citizen I’m genuinely curious: how could people vote for this convicted, deranged, senile, racist, homophobic grandpa? Like what arguments do they use?
Inflation. “The economy” was the #1 polled issue among Republicans by far. We saw this as well with Bush and Trump’s win in 2016 - for a lot of people, a scary amount, if you just promise “hey I’ll make the economy better.”
The media normalized him. Just like they did to Hitler.
Inflation.
But I think racism and homophobia as well as religion is another big reason. It just was articulated a lot less by people.
That means Trump will fix the inflation and Kamala wouldn’t?
No it means because the inflation happened on the watch of the Democrats that the Democrats are getting blamed for it even though a lot of it was caused by how Trump handled COVID.
But US voters have a very short memory. And Trump is a very good liar.
Also I forgot to mention gender played a huge role in this. A lot of this is about misogyny and racism underneath the surface.
Unfortunately, the Democrats should have ran a white man. Because that’s the state of this country really.
I had so much hope for climate change and abortions rights and this burger man wins. Wtf is this state of world. The world will be on fire soon and the people can no longer do anything peaceful to stop it.
It is important to escape our self-built echo chambers. Many independent journalists and commentators spoke of an increase in minority support for Trump and Harris not reaching the Biden numbers.
We must focus on building up a grassroots movement that is for the working class and moving away from the duopoly.
Stay hopeful!
Young people too. Being an asshole is starting to get popular again. And a running narrative has been that Trump’s policies were good, people just don’t like him because he’s an asshole. And 18 year olds don’t even remember the “grab them by the pussy” tape or anything he did that first year because they were 10.
Wtf is this state of
world.US. State of the US. We don’t need latent american exceptionalism to add to the problem.
No, world. Where the US “leads” a lot of the rest of the world will follow, and the MAGAs are Hell-bent in leading us all off a +4°C cliff.
You are not wrong Russia invading Ukraine Isreal invading Palestine and kicking China playing games with Taiwan Everyone globally saying how but jobs like Trump are sprouting up. It hurts that I can’t see one place to go or feel safe from the muricans.
Trump is the only US president to ever face and beat two female candidates. Quite the record if i must say
This is going to play out like 2016. The Left are to make every little thing. He does into the biggest baddest thing of all time. The world didn’t end in 2016, so why will it end now?
No one is expecting “world to end”. It’s just going to get somewhat shittier whereas it could have gotten better or at least stayed the same. Also for some minorities it’s going to get a lot shittier.
And for Ukraine and Gaza. So all those folks saying Kamala didn’t have a hard enough stance should be thrilled right now.
They wouldn’t be thrilled, either way. I hope the ones blindly supporting the Democrats pandering to the right are thrilled, instead.
Project 2025, mostly. That and the permanently red Supreme Court composed of partisans.
Historically that’s not necessarily the case. Authoritarians who come to power via somewhat democratic means in their first terms to be much more mild relative to subsequent terms where they solidify their hold on institutions.
One notable example would be Putin’s first term (which is largely seen to be a fair win) or even when Medvedev was ordered to warm the seat. It always only gets worse, at least from historical examples.
The bigger question is whether the US opposition has any willingness to fight, which I don’t believe to be the case.
I wish we weren’t about to find out.
