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/mdp300 New Jersey May 19 '24

I think there are very, very few people who would switch from voting for Biden in 20 to Trump in 24. What's more likely is that people just don't vote at all because Biden is too old, or inflation, or whatever stupid reason.

And they help Trump, because his supporters will vote. They think that the country has to be saved from communist democrats.

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u/OkProfessional6077 May 19 '24

Concerns over the age of our 82 year old president and inflation are not stupid, they are real issues. Are they issues worth handing the presidency to Trump by not voting? No, but they are not “stupid”.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '24

It would be more of a real issue if the VP was a Sarah Palin type. Harris would be fine as president.

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u/krodiggs May 19 '24

What? Harris is, intellectually, just a black Sarah Palin. Fantastic comparison. Just like Palin, she rose up within the political ranks due to checking boxes than achievements and intellect. Unless you don’t mind her record of arresting more black men than anyone in American history post civil war in her term as DA (but jumped out of her seat at the State of the Union to applaud Biden’s position on cannabis arrests), a position she was given due to being the first mistress of SF, a position she got by being montell’s groupie.