It’s almost nostalgic, for the wrong reasons. It came upon me a few minutes ago to realize this. They go parallel with eachother that 20 years ago, people had the same exact defeatist reaction when George W Bush got re-elected when people thought he wouldn’t.

Now, 20 years later, when people thought Trump wouldn’t get elected again, here we are.

  • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    15 days ago

    I don’t recall George Bush attempting to cause an overthrow of the US government before.

  • mke_geek@lemm.ee
    7·
    15 days ago

    Reminder that 50% of people are below average intelligence, and the U.S. specifically rates 29th in the world in intelligence.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    15 days ago

    less poetic, more tragic

    we’re going back to jim crow era with mobs lynching people

    there are reports of neo nazi groups already marching in the streets, emboldened by trumps win

    this is a very dark time

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    5·
    15 days ago

    The parallel is with not having great choices against him, as well as an established GOP who could pull the votes when they need them. Outside of that, the problems and crimes, and the level of insanity were different.

    What about Reagan? Same parallel of weak opposition, for a much longer time since Bush followed, and Clinton was more centrist. Perhaps that’s a start of the movement to the center.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Yeah, Democrats have no pipeline to generate top talent. Their last candidate got trounced in the last primary she attended. Democrats didn’t even want her. They got a wake up call in 2016 and failed to fix the problem, they need to take the call this time and fix it.

  • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    15 days ago

    people thought Trump wouldn’t get elected again

    A lot of knew that he would get elected again but Democrats kept punching left and told us to shut the fuck up and vote for their neoliberal. In 2028 they will repeat the same mistakes they made in 2024, 2020 and 2016 And are shocked that the results came out the same.