• Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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      17 days ago

      I was I could blame the patriarchy but the numbers are consistent for dem votes going back to 2004. The extra people who voted in 2020 didn’t show up again.

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      17 days ago

      Sure is!.. and deciding to change candidate without a democratic primary was part of finding that out.

      Gen-Z men also shifted towards Trump.

      So progress is unfortunately not linear, but can slip back to darker times. Which is not great.

      Edit: Also, though I think lots of Trump voters vote for him because he’s unusual. They see him as a vote against the usual. Against establishment candidates, and against the standard social-political contract. So establishment candidates being disconnected from what voters actually want is a big part of it.