DDHQ made the call after declaring Trump the projected winner of Pennsylvania and Alaska, which got him to exactly 270 electoral votes.
As a non US citizen I’m genuinely curious: how could people vote for this convicted, deranged, senile, racist, homophobic grandpa? Like what arguments do they use?
Inflation. “The economy” was the #1 polled issue among Republicans by far. We saw this as well with Bush and Trump’s win in 2016 - for a lot of people, a scary amount, if you just promise “hey I’ll make the economy better.”
The media normalized him. Just like they did to Hitler.
Inflation.
But I think racism and homophobia as well as religion is another big reason. It just was articulated a lot less by people.
That means Trump will fix the inflation and Kamala wouldn’t?
No it means because the inflation happened on the watch of the Democrats that the Democrats are getting blamed for it even though a lot of it was caused by how Trump handled COVID.
But US voters have a very short memory. And Trump is a very good liar.
Also I forgot to mention gender played a huge role in this. A lot of this is about misogyny and racism underneath the surface.
Unfortunately, the Democrats should have ran a white man. Because that’s the state of this country really.
No evidence, but this smells fishy
You’re the only other person I’ve seen mention this at all. I said it earlier, you, me, everyone, everyone’s cousin, and also the FBI were very well aware that Trump & Co were definitely attempting to cheat the election, they’ve proven their intent to do so, and proper certification and electoral votes aren’t even until mid December. I don’t understand how this is possibly being uncontested right now. There are way less votes than everyone expected, it comes out in Trump’s favor with exactly the thin margin he needed to win, and everyone is just running with “Yep he’s won we know this 3 hours after election night there is no need to follow up further”
I, for one, don’t believe a bit of this for at least the next month and expect some major findings in the next few weeks. I also might just be on the copium, who knows.
Can’t Harris request a recount?
I had so much hope for climate change and abortions rights and this burger man wins. Wtf is this state of world. The world will be on fire soon and the people can no longer do anything peaceful to stop it.
It is important to escape our self-built echo chambers. Many independent journalists and commentators spoke of an increase in minority support for Trump and Harris not reaching the Biden numbers.
We must focus on building up a grassroots movement that is for the working class and moving away from the duopoly.
Stay hopeful!
Young people too. Being an asshole is starting to get popular again. And a running narrative has been that Trump’s policies were good, people just don’t like him because he’s an asshole. And 18 year olds don’t even remember the “grab them by the pussy” tape or anything he did that first year because they were 10.
Trump is the only US president to ever face and beat two female candidates. Quite the record if i must say
This is going to play out like 2016. The Left are to make every little thing. He does into the biggest baddest thing of all time. The world didn’t end in 2016, so why will it end now?
Trump literally caused the deaths of millions of Americans last time
And tried to murder his VP and congress for supporting democracy.
No one is expecting “world to end”. It’s just going to get somewhat shittier whereas it could have gotten better or at least stayed the same. Also for some minorities it’s going to get a lot shittier.
Honestly I do expect this term to be worse than the first. He had to temper his behavior and choices because he wanted to be reflected. Now there isn’t any chance of reelection so he will be more likely to do drastic things with no regard for the consequences.
Also, this time they (Rs) are prepared.
And for Ukraine and Gaza. So all those folks saying Kamala didn’t have a hard enough stance should be thrilled right now.
I can’t imagine Palestinians are wrecked by this news. There’s a good chance it’ll get worse, but it’s still fairly ambiguous.
I really wonder how Ukrainians feel though. This is a major win for Russia.
There’s indication Netanyahu wants to seize parts of Gaza into Israel. If it comes to that, there is no way Trump is going to do anything about it (except try to extract maximal gain for himself in terms of favors etc.)
I really, REALLY hate throwing “both sides” out there because it’s usually bullshit. But I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that any of the candidates would stop Israel from doing that. There’s barely a slim chance that either of the Dem nominees would have even done a damn thing more than lip service.
They wouldn’t be thrilled, either way. I hope the ones blindly supporting the Democrats pandering to the right are thrilled, instead.
Project 2025, mostly. That and the permanently red Supreme Court composed of partisans.
Historically that’s not necessarily the case. Authoritarians who come to power via somewhat democratic means in their first terms to be much more mild relative to subsequent terms where they solidify their hold on institutions.
One notable example would be Putin’s first term (which is largely seen to be a fair win) or even when Medvedev was ordered to warm the seat. It always only gets worse, at least from historical examples.
The bigger question is whether the US opposition has any willingness to fight, which I don’t believe to be the case.
I wish we weren’t about to find out.
