Post AnmD6YPFCG8d15YSZs by Simplicator@federate.social
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 (DIR) Post #AnlwPzNn2KqaZUcUXw by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-11-06T17:01:43Z
       
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       one way to think about it is the electorate wanted Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump seemed the closest thing on offer.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnlwRi7AD67paufDzE by jnl@hcommons.social
       2024-11-06T17:02:00Z
       
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       @interfluidity omg
       
 (DIR) Post #AnlwdG5UEwDc93NzmK by laprice@beige.party
       2024-11-06T17:02:49Z
       
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       @interfluidity I hate thtat this is so accurate.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnmD6YPFCG8d15YSZs by Simplicator@federate.social
       2024-11-06T20:08:40Z
       
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       @interfluidity Meanwhile the Democratic Party establishment remains firmly committed to “no more FDRs.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AnmEqYeKiwr12w73jc by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-11-06T20:28:13Z
       
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       @Simplicator i think Biden briefly was enamored of being an FDR, absent sinemanchin might have made more progress in that direction.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnmOcJIG1HuKuLdF2m by BenRossTransit@mastodon.social
       2024-11-06T22:17:38Z
       
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       @interfluidity @Simplicator Blame not passing labor law reform under Carter, Clinton's NAFTA, the universities' fetish of the "transgressive" & performative over the material. 2020 was too late to fix thngs.A frequent claim is that the middle class is the crucial guarantor of democracy. I'd say that in industrial society it's as much or more a free labor movement.Our liberal middle class, unlike Germany's in the 30s, went along with Biden's pro-union policies. Unions just had too few members.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnmVl5hGdlPZ1YSqJs by chrisp@c.im
       2024-11-06T23:37:41Z
       
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       @interfluidity Teddy Roosevelt was in favor of the income tax
       
 (DIR) Post #Anngfg7haXeQumPVaK by dedicto@mastodon.social
       2024-11-07T13:14:41Z
       
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       @interfluidity And if true, this means that the rest of the world is right to dismiss Americans, on average at least, as deeply unserious people.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnnhHq9yijJ92zfjcG by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-11-07T13:21:36Z
       
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       @dedicto not an average. remember, US elections are decided on a very weird margin.
       
 (DIR) Post #Anni9YxksJkhLgZVWS by dedicto@mastodon.social
       2024-11-07T13:31:13Z
       
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       @interfluidity I'm including not only the ones who voted, but the ones who stayed home. If you're right about the thinking of the #Trump voters, then the motivations of the nonvoters were probably similar. They couldn't stomach Trump, but they couldn't get excited about #KamalaHarris. She was no Teddy Roosevelt (and not just because of her gender). Her superiority over Trump on the issues couldn't overcome their apathy about her personally. "She has no substance" one such person told a pollster.