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Comment by throwawaysleep

4 days ago

> not supported by the vast majority of the country

Votes suggest otherwise.

We both know this is an imperfect statement without getting into a lecture about representative democracy or voting modalities.

  • This is muddying with jargon. You're insisting on nuance where there is none: Trump won emphatically, and the campaign couldn't have been clearer about what MAGA intended to do in power.

    • The combined margin in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania (which could combine to flip the election) was about 250,000 votes. That's not all that emphatic.

    • Nope, I will not get myself dragged into this mud, except maybe to say that by the numbers, "not voting" won.

The polls[0] on the war do not necessarily fall along party lines

[0]: https://usapolling.substack.com/p/america-marches-into-anoth...

  • > 60% of Americans oppose sending US troops into Venezuela to remove Maduro from power. Support is heavily concentrated among Republicans, with 58% in favor, compared to just 21% of independents and 14% of Democrats.

    But they do.

He promised his voters no new wars. So your statement is completely wrong.

  • He asked why he can't use nukes in 2016. Trump is pro raw power, pro war, always was, always will be. "We didn't vote for this" - all Germans 1945. SPOILER ALERT: They did, it was all in "Mein Kampf".

    I hate it when everyone says "Nazi Germany" instead of just "Germany".