Subj : Re: Cancel Culture
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sat Oct 29 2022 10:42:08

On 29 Oct 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> > Conservatives would gladly embrace either of these if it meant
 MP> >  MP> > retainin
 MP> >  MP> > power, as was well-demonstrated during and after the Trump presid
 MP> >  MP> After election day 2016, there were plenty of non-conservatives who
 MP> >  MP> would
 MP> >  MP> have also gladly embraced either if it meant Obama staying in power
 MP> > Nice try, but no. There was no attack on the government after the electi
 MP> > 2016. There was no refusal to concede. There was no threat of remaining 
 MP> > power despite having been defeated. And there was no widespread support 
 MP> > any of that, either. 2020 was a turning point, a whole new animal.
 MP> The part about "gladly embracing either" was true, though.  Even if they
 MP> didn't demonstrate it in the same way.  If you didn't pick up on that,
 MP> you must not have been paying attention.

No, it wasn't. Of course Democrats were upset that they lost, and that's
acceptable. There was no attempt to retain power after losing the election.

None.

Jeff.

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