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We tend to underestimate how large reddit is and also tend to overestimate how much the quality of the communities we participate in affect the average reddit user.
https://backlinko.com/reddit-users
It grew pretty heavily in 2024, there are other places that collect stats too, but in most ways that you can easily measure, it’s moving in that direction. 2023 did have a small blip in comments posted per year, but it got back on track fairly quick.
I disagree with calling her a clown, but I do worry that it would be hard to get the american populace behind her as that is not an uncommon opinion. A large part of it is likely based on her gender and age, if she was a 60-year old white man with the same ideas, we likely wouldn’t have this problem.