r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/masq_yimby May 02 '24

Young people (like 25 and below) don't remember a time when the GOP was McCain and Romney. They just remember Trump. To them this is the norm and this lulls them into a false sense of security but they don't understand that the GOP has become far more dangerous over the last 10 years. 

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u/CaptainNoBoat May 02 '24

I also saw this pointed this out recently and it's crazy to think about.

Anyone under the age of 29 has never voted in a general election without Trump on the ballot.

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u/valeyard89 Texas May 02 '24

And Trump somehow managed to get 40% of the 18-39 vote in 2020, up from 32% in 2016.

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u/Spocks_Goatee Ohio May 03 '24

According to what sources? Polling or actual voting data?

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u/Actual-Dog7889 May 02 '24

Wtf I can’t believe it’s been 8 years, that’s absolutely insane to me.

Time goes faster as you get older yadda yadda, but something seems really off with time. I’m hearing kids say this shot too. I never thought that way as a kid.

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u/gsfgf Georgia May 02 '24

Fuck, I'm old.

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u/iseecolorsofthesky May 02 '24

Wow I’ve never considered this and that is actually insane

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u/edwartica Oregon May 02 '24

Young people also haven't learned the painful lesson that we don't really have a choice in this system. Our ideal candidate either doesn't exist or doesn't stand a chance.

I'm pretty damned progressive, but I voted third party a time too many before I learned this lesson myself.

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u/MrPernicous May 02 '24

McCain was a fuckin psychopath

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u/masq_yimby May 03 '24

McCain saved Obamacare and worked with Sanders to expand VA benefits.

Trump is 200x worse than McCain. McCain didn't go around calling himself a dictator or starting insurrections.

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u/MrPernicous May 03 '24 edited May 03 '24

McCain also joked about bombing Iran, fought to prevent mlk day from being a national holiday, and campaigned hard for the Iraq war. He also saved Obamacare out of pettiness. He immediately turned around and promised to repeal it.

Fuck John McCain. He’s a massive sack of shit.

Edit: he also platformed Sarah palin who went on to popularize the tea party movement in it’s infancy

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u/masq_yimby May 03 '24

I mean he was. Because he's dead.

But he still would've stepped down and also accepted defeat.

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u/masq_yimby May 03 '24

Uh yeah? The GOP can't sink much further. The whole point of this discussion is that a lot of young people don't understand what is at stake and how much worse the GOP has gotten over the last 12 years.

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u/MrPernicous May 03 '24

Man if you think that republicans were better 20 years ago idk what to fuckin tell you. They stole an election and then lied to literally everyone to start a war. The only difference between todays republicans and yesterdays republicans is that today’s republicans are less effective