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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    22 days ago

    Hillary lost because of a multi-decade campaign against her by the right wing propaganda machines.

    Hillary lost because the only voting demographic that hates her more than Republican voters, is Dem voters.

    For valid reasons related to her unpopular policy and zero charisma.

    It doesn’t matter how many comments you make denying it, people started paying attention to politics again.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      22 days ago

      Hot take: you’re both right.

      Right-wing spin machine had been after Hillary for years. It severely damaged her campaign.

      Hillary had no appeal to 60% of the Dem base. It severely damaged her campaign.

      AOC faces the same threat from the right-wing spin machine, but she has good policies to sell to the base.

      Sexism and racism will factor in, of course, but the strongest opposing force is the billionaire news outlets.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        It’s also important to note why Biden won. Trump was president and everything sucked. Four years later, dealing with long term consequences of Trump still and waiting for Biden’s longer term planning to kick in there was dissatisfaction and blame was thrown. People remembered how nice 2017 and such were economically and thought “well 2020 was the pandemic” and forgot that everything was getting worse in 2019.

        So we’re in a precarious position and we said “let the clown run the circus again”. And so we got crammed into the little car and he drove us off a fucking cliff, just like he promised to.