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you eat pieces of **** for breakfast?


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Saw the same from liberal extremist scum in 2016 when it was “oh man Hilary? I hate her and she’s just as bad as trump but I guess I’ll go with Hillary bc I have to”. Then when push came to shove, they voted trump. Go ahead create that narrative again “I guess we will just have to with sleepy joe...he’s just as bad as trump minus the tweets

no he’s Not. Trump is the freaking devil. Not even close

There were very few voters, on the left, who committed to vote for Hillary Clinton in the general who subsequently decided to vote for Trump. It’s true that Hillary lead up on the polls by seven points in August and lost the election.

This was largely due to:

1.) Registered Republicans “coming home.” They didn’t like Trump, they voted for one of a Trump’s primary opponents and all summer long and into October they told pollsters that they’d vote for Hillary. Either the Comey letter, Trump’s speech to black America, the vacant Supreme Court seat, mike pence being named VP or something else have these Republicans the fig leaf they needed to do what their partisan alignment suggested they were going to do all along, vote for a Republican candidate.

As much as was made by the media about Trump bringing along previously disengaged, low income white voters, is popular vote total was less than Mitt Romney’s in 2012. What really cost Hillary was

2.) those who simply did not vote. Voters who felt despair in the face of capitalism and white supremacy didn’t protest vote for Trump. Despair manifested itself as not voting because it’s hard to get poor people to stand in line for hours to vote for incremental change.


I’m only addressing the gap between Hillary lead in the polls in late summer of 2016 and the final result. There are many other structural reasons why Clinton most including something that is easy to forget, she won the election and Trump became president because of the electoral college.
 
Political savvy folks, sans being held at gunpoint, what could the house do to actually get the reform bill passed through the Senate?
 
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