He's doing largely what Project 2025 outlined. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised
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It's because they're stupid
Legit, something I heard from a trump voter after the election: yeah, I heard about Project 2025 and I hate it. But this election was to get trump into office, I'll vote against Project 2025 in 2025.
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and he said he was campaigning on it, why are is his constituents surprised.
Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do when American voters gave him all the power and took it away from the democrats.
You do realize that there are people who did not vote for him?
That always gets me with these kinds of comments too. It's like they are telling us we deserve this because we voted for it but almost half of the people that voted wanted something else. That's a whole lot of people who didn't want it.
I guess when you are talking to the void on the Internet you can aim your anger at whoever you want. We are just caught in the cross hairs
And it's not like it's going to be much better depending where you live in a lot of countries that are democracies(itself not so great under capitalism). Like what happened in the USA can happen and did happen in other countries to especially where fascist and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise.
This Perspektive also ignores bigger causes like media companies, systems of opression, political campaigns, lobbying groups and we'll people in power protecting their interests as well as the state, that can form and influence what becomes public opinion. And we'll far right fascist groups and their billionaires building this up for quite a while now.
Point being these developments are complicated and blaming the average American for trump's victory ignores the larger picture especially when you see people from Europe calling Americans stupid and thinking that an authoritarian takeover could never happen here in western eurooe. To that where just a few years behind but it is a very real possibility.
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Which is the majority, if you count those that voted for Kamala = ~75 million, and those that did not vote = ~90 million.
Yes but more people voted for him so he won.
But that doesn't mean that people who did not vote for him or literally could not vote in the first place are irrelevant. Or what about the people who are actively resisting?
Don't give them facts. They're just an irredeemable troll
Unfortunately for the point of this conversation they are irrelevant.
That’s how the process works.
If they only would remember this at the next election. If there is a next election...
the elected GOP are laughing in the voters faces, because they know you voted for this and will vote for them in the future, no use getting mad now, you brought this upon yourselves. Also the non-voters(those who sat at home out of protest or dint bother voting, or dint even know there was eleciton going on)