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/Fine-Benefit8156 May 19 '24

I still can’t get over 74 million who voted for him. I thought his debacle with Covid handling would surely doom him but it seems his base are glutton for punishment even more.

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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/BeautifulCost6067 May 19 '24

I've seen a huge amount of signs all over Oregon & Washington telling people to write their ballot as uncommitted.

I find this to almost spell certain doom for the coming election.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there were a lot of votes to third party entities (many of them for Harambe the Gorilla RIP) during the last election cycle he was involved in. All those votes ended up being pointless, and doing nothing to help anyone.

I'm worried a lot of people that don't agree w/Biden or Trump are going to make the choice to write uncommitted like these signs suggest, and all that will do is make those votes meaningless in the respect of actually stopping another Trump presidency.

I do not agree with America's 2 primary political party layout, yet I do not see it being dismantled any time soon. So I really do not have positive hope for the future as of now :(