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Epstein conspirator Steve Bannon: “We‘re gonna have ICE surround the polls…We’ll never again allow an election to be stolen.” (cdn.social.linux.pizza)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

It won't matter.

We can see by the elections that have taken place so far in 2025 and 2026 that they've angered enough Republican voters to kill their chances, whether those people flipped to Democrat or opted to stay home. Dems have flipped something like two dozen districts in the last year, several of which Donald won by double digits in 2024.

Doesn't mean they won't try. It is likely they can't ascertain the scope of how badly they've pissed off their own voters though. This is likely to do with the fact that Donald and his inner circle can't be bothered to take a sobering look at their own internal polling data.

If Republicans can't rely on the states that voted red in 2024, and they evidently cannot, they can't adequately strategize in the way Bannon is describing.

And if Republicans opt to escalate their aggression even more, it just pisses off more voters.

I think it far more likely Donald tries to do something on affordability that he can brand with his name before the election. He'll gladly add another trillion to the national debt and send checks to voters if he thinks it'll let him grift a few more billion while he's still able to put two words together.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone also said that there was no way Trump would get elected a second time after LITERALLY EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED since he announced he was going to run and here we are.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I don't think that's accurate.

There was a significant portion of the Democratic base that was dissatisfied with Biden/Harris and made it abundantly clear. Remember when Obama was dispatched to campaign events to lecture young black men? Or when Clinton was dispatched to campaign events to lecture angry Palestinian Americans?

Also, it was a sore point with many voters that Biden was nominated even though the entire Democratic Party seemingly knew he had dementia.

For my part, I think the idea that 'everyone' thought Donald couldn't be re-elected was just because so many consume information only from their algorithm on these shitty corporate platforms like FB/TikTok/Twitter. That algorithm will figure out what you want to see and then construct a reality for you around it, so maybe you saw that Harris was unbeatable.

For my part, I predicted she'd lose. She ran a campaign that was basically opposite that of Mamdani, so it wasn't hard to tell. You can't tell people who are living in storage units and working three jobs just to afford groceries that you won't change anything and expect to win. To become president you have to be the candidate of change. In 2024 (even though he was lying about everything) that candidate was Donald.