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DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do you meant that's not the middle?

Trump ran on right policy (and "policy) both elections and won

That's what I thought for a long time. But when I look back at 2016 and I look at this one, I think he appealed to the center voter with promises of jobs and income. They liked that so much they keep saying/thinking/hoping that Trump won't do all the nutso right wing stuff he says he will. Go listen to voter interviews, they all say "nah he won't do mass deportation, it's all bluster.", or "He only means the criminals." It's unreal but that's what they think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

that's more accurate, yeah. definitely in 2016 he ran as a moderate, and with this more recent campaign, it's not so much that he ran a great campaign (lost 2 million voters), but more that I think he just had enough raw momentum and low information, working class voters wanted to manifest him into being the "make the economy good" guy, that they really didn't give a shit about whatever he was doing up in the news cycle. At the most, they can just dismiss that as something he's saying to get elected because "he's smart", or something he's doing to make the democrats mad, which is funny. beyond that, it doesn't matter so much for them what his specific platform is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you meant that's not the middle?

Oh yeah.

That's what I thought for a long time. But when I look back at 2016 and I look at this one, I think he appealed to the center voter with promises of jobs and income.

I mean everyone, no matter their political views, cares about jobs and income. Being left or right wing is more about the way you believe that should be achieved (and how much you hate minorities). Trump didn't appeal to center voters with promises of jobs and income; he appealed to right wing voters with their version of jobs and income and other policies right wing voters support. Obama promised left wing voters their version of jobs and income. Hillary and Harris promised nobody's version of jobs and income.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You know there is this big fat juicy, undecided, independent, center, whatever you want to call it, group that yes Trump did appeal to. You say, right wing version, left wing version, well those are eclipsed by the humongous center of the bell curve.

I don't think we're going to agree. I say center, you say right, I say center, you say right.