MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoDonald Trump’s racist NYC rally was vile. It was also political suicidewww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1559arrow-down137
arrow-up1522arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump’s racist NYC rally was vile. It was also political suicidewww.thedailybeast.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square145fedilink
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up26·4 days agoThis opinion piece was an operatic exercise in wishful thinking. Even as it admits that at least 47% of the population loves everything spewed in that rally, it still called it political suicide.
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days ago47% of the electorate is not 47% of the population. In 2016, when Trump won, he got 25% of the eligible populations vote.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoYep. The question is whether his open fascism cost him more votes than it gained, but that is a question.
This opinion piece was an operatic exercise in wishful thinking. Even as it admits that at least 47% of the population loves everything spewed in that rally, it still called it political suicide.
47% of the electorate is not 47% of the population.
In 2016, when Trump won, he got 25% of the eligible populations vote.
Yep. The question is whether his open fascism cost him more votes than it gained, but that is a question.