r/politics • u/ben_watson_jr • May 19 '24

How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again? Soft Paywall

https://newrepublic.com/article/181287/can-america-possibly-elect-trump-again
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u/Sunflier Pennsylvania May 19 '24

Never under estimate the power of cults.

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u/hat-TF2 May 19 '24

Also, since there's essentially only two options, you only need to convince enough people to hate one of the options. "I don't like Trump, but at least he didn't raise the oil prices" or something to that effect.

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u/disposableaccount848 May 19 '24

Honestly, the USA essentially having only two options is the biggest reason why someone like Trump gets votes.

"I don't like Biden and I don't have any other options so Trump it is. 🤷‍♂️"

Not that I think it's sane to think like that as Trump is beyond awful in every shape or form and no matter what you think of Biden you shouldn't think he's worse than Trump but that's the reason really.

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u/Serialfornicator May 19 '24

Whattaya mean? There’s the third choice: the guy with a rotted brain that’s been eaten by worms who shits on science

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u/Disposableaccount365 May 19 '24

Whats funny is worm brain guys brain still functions at a higher level than the two main candidates.