• Universal Monk@lemm.eeOP
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    7 hours ago

    Yeah, the landslide of Red, should definitely wake up a lot of democrats and Lemmy’s. From a quote that was said on a newscast, about why he thinks Trump won by such a large margin:

    “I’m interpreting the results tonight as revenge of just the regular old working-class American, the anonymous American who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They’re not garbage, they’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives.”

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      6 hours ago

      they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives.”

      They were told they were racist, sexiest, garbage, etc.

      The average American isn’t into gender or racial politics. They just want to raise their kids, have a vacation, etc. Most people are not overly political and when you make their life politics, they rebel