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      I wish that were a surprise, but it was all so dreadfully predictable. There’s an author that I used to follow around the 2010 timeframe, who wrote on his blog that when fascism came to America, it’d be in the form of “corn pone Nazis,” not the stylish Hugo Boss-wearing ones. (Sadly, he’s scrubbed those old entries, perhaps because it’s too embarrassing after he went MAGA.)

      There were plenty of warning signs earlier than that, too. The only thing we didn’t know then was the exact timing.

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        Most of his voters aren’t Nazis.

        They are people who want change. and the democrats didn’t represent that in either election. they were status quo candidates. trump was the change candidate.

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          Most of his voters aren’t Nazis. They are people who want change.

          I’m pretty sure that’s how the nazis got into power too

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            they got into power by representing what the people wanted and getting their votes?

            wow… what a concept.

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            met tons of them. none of them were nazis.

            met a ton of athelist liberals though, who were more than happy to fantasize about mass-murdering religious people. that seems a lot more nazi to me.

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              What would you call a congregation with a pastor that storms around on stage raging about how homosexuals and similarly other lgbtq+ are going to burn in hell?

              And the whole congregation is loving every minute of it?

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          Right, they’re not stylish or intelligent enough to be Nazis, but it’s a fascist regime all the same.

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            nobody in his ‘regime’ is smart or organized enough to be facist. they are not idealogical, they are just greedy.

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              Musk did a nazi salute. on tv. twice. They’re fucking nazis

              concentration camps, abducting and murdering people in the street, it all checks out

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      The democrats are genuinely that awful though. They basically tell 2/3 of the USA to go fuck itself, and well, they don’t get their votes.

      They used to be a working-class party. Now they are the party of the college-educated, which is only 1/3 of voters.

      So Trump one. All he had to do was appeal to those people, because the Democrats refuse to do so. Boom, wins two elections.

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        The democrats refuse to appeal to republicans? In my experience, trying to appeal to republicans is one of the bigger reasons the democrats lose elections.

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          Thats common misinfo spread by insane lefties but not its not true at all.

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            insane lefties are the majority of the posers on fedi. they existing their own fictional universe that everyone else who isn’t them is a nazi/extremist. and it’s just a reflection because they themselves are often the most nazi-like in their desire to use the force of the state to impose their will/values on everyone else.

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          1/3 of the country is independent. they are the swing voters. you have to appeal to them.

          that’s the funny thing about winning elections… you need to get people to vote for you to do that.

          the people who voted for Obama, voted for Trump.