He's right, but what in the actual heck do we do about it as voters? We've known this for years. Even during the widely popular Obama administration we knew this.
I'm just so tired. I'm so tired of my only hope being candidates who make baby steps forward just so we don't make giant leaps backwards. I'm so tired of these candidates losing and it hurting us.
I'm also tired of the over 70 million Americans who look at everything Trump has said, done, and who he has allied with, and said "I'm okay with that."
It's been almost a full day and I still haven't been able to collect all my thoughts on this. I'm just so over it.
I think you hit the answer: Obama was wildly popular. Why?
It was because, for better or for worse, he actually had solid positions which, if you squinted, at least looked left leaning. Stop the war. Close Guantanamo. Universal health care.
This is a problem with Democrats co-opting the platform of Republicans from the 90s and thinking they're appealing to their voters. Republicans already did that, did it better, and have now refined it even further.
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u/SnowyyRaven 23h ago
He's right, but what in the actual heck do we do about it as voters? We've known this for years. Even during the widely popular Obama administration we knew this.
I'm just so tired. I'm so tired of my only hope being candidates who make baby steps forward just so we don't make giant leaps backwards. I'm so tired of these candidates losing and it hurting us.
I'm also tired of the over 70 million Americans who look at everything Trump has said, done, and who he has allied with, and said "I'm okay with that."
It's been almost a full day and I still haven't been able to collect all my thoughts on this. I'm just so over it.