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Kaitlin Has Had Enough@gothamgirlblue.com |
Not to be rude to Michael whom I respect very much, but in 2012 Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in the country and had a viral meme. In 2020, numerous people said that Biden was so great he should have run in 2016. The weaknesses of these candidates pale to the weakness in us.
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Alex 🏳️🌈
@alexanotherone.bsky.social
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Georgia voted blue for the first time since 1992, by what definition is that "weak?"
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Scooby MF Doo
@ceezworld12.bsky.social
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I feel this way every time I hear “these are the best people we can come up with?!” And to a degree, I feel it to. But we’re simultaneously buying the negative propaganda at face value and admonishing ourselves for it at the same time.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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This is a rant I have had for a while, but the first First Lady with a postgraduate degree, Watergate lawyer, children’s rights activist, US Senator and Secretary of State was not a weak fucking candidate. She was more progressive than Biden in every conceivable way. She got fucked over.
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Rogntuudju
@rogntudju.bsky.social
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Also people keep on forgetting 2016 June, July and October surprise(s)
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@werechicken.bsky.social
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The only way he won was the goddamn electoral college, a shitty thing that isn’t even relevant to the nowadays.
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john d moore
@jdm0079.bsky.social
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For as much as our discourse is constantly relitigating 2016, we seem to be getting further and further away from the things I remember actually happening in 2016.
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Franklin Piss🇺🇦
@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social
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In fact, Clinton's weakness as a candidate is exactly the sort of false conventional wisdom of which Hobbes himself is a master debunker...
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Kat Z
@katzindc.bsky.social
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I don’t know what metrics he is using but if I recall correctly, Joe Biden is the only person who has ever received more electoral votes than Trump in a presidential election.
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Alison Fincher
@alisonfincher.bsky.social
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Trump won on sexism and a D campaign that seems to have taken victory as a given. But lots of sexism. No one ever discusses the accusations of f-ing witchcraft against Clinton in the waning days of the 2016 campaign. Witchcraft?! That’s the oldest sexist accusation in the book!
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wishda
@wishda.bsky.social
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The Clinton name was a curse in my home community because NAFTA fucked us worse than the Midwest. Hillary could have been Jesus’ Holier Sister, and that would have still been true. Democrats have never reckoned with that anger.
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Ryan
@ryanwithcupcake.bsky.social
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I just finished the book Shattered about her 2016 campaign, and it notes that even Clinton was aware that her popularity numbers would not remain that high once she transitioned again into a electoral contest.
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WE FINALLY BEAT MEDICARE
@nihilism.bsky.social
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2012? Maybe that's true: But in 2016 Hillary Clinton was deeply unpopular.
In fact both Trump and Clinton were the two most unpopular presidential candidates in polling dating back more than 30 years at the time.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
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Materialist Gnostic
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I think Trump is lucky, but not really with his opponents. The Comey letter won him 2016, and that took a lot of things coming together to happen. But Hillary and Biden are strong candidates (and, yes, were it not for his personal tragedy Biden would've taken 2016).
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