• t_chalco@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Americans didn’t even bother to show up and now we have a Republicans in control of all three branches again.>

    Absolutely. Trump did not have a significant bump in votes, 10 million voters did not turn out, or so early figures show. Of them, it’s largely white suburban males. Apathy leads to populism. Dr. King had something to say about white liberals…

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      3 hours ago

      Sure but at the same time Blacks and Latinos made significant bumps to the Trump vote here too. I would have to imagine that Dr. Kind would have some choice words for them too.