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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's fair to say that they were trying to be democratic in their approach, and really couldn't have anticipated that the public would vote again for a twice-impeached felon with dozens of charges, and the person solely responsible for inciting a violent insurrection against the capital. But here we are! 🫠

Is there a rewind button we could use? ☹️

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, it's not like the polls ever showed the unstoppable lead "felon" implies. Nor did the problem start with Trump; the angry far-right rhetoric has been slowly escalating pretty much my whole (young-ish) life.

Top democrats have shown very poor judgement, probably because they couldn't or wouldn't imagine the stuff that's happened a million times before in other places could happen to them. Normalcy bias is a bitch.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

The reality is, things have been going pretty good for the world in general (minus Putin being a total cunt), especially Canada and the US. And when you consider we all came out of a pandemic in pretty good shape, in spite of trump's extremely poor handling of it, that should have given most sensible people reason to be humble.

Instead, problems were invented and spread through right-wing social media and regular media. Then false promises given by trump to "fix" those lies.

People were duped, and they voted based on the lies they were fed.

And if elected Republican officials had any concept of duty to the nation, Trump would have been stopped cold after his first impeachment. They should have stopped him cold when we all heard him boasting about sexually assaulting women, tbh.

We can blame both sides all day. The fact of the matter is that enough people voted for Trump, and gave him permission to do what he's been doing. Whatever course-correction needs to happen will be very difficult and extremely taxing on individuals who now have to literally fight for their lives or livelihoods.