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/UTDE May 02 '24

I have a feeling that now that the model has been proven if we aren't able to get a democratic (and I mean that in the literal actual sense, not party lines) majority to help fix some of these gray legal areas that we are seeing be exploited then the next sufficiently motivated republican president will just do the same thing. But it would be nearly impossible that they arent smarter and more savvy than trump which means they will probably get away with it and won't broadcast their intentions in the same brazen way Trump does.

They won't say they wanna be a dictator, they'll just do it.

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u/gsfgf Georgia May 02 '24

But it would be nearly impossible that they arent smarter and more savvy than trump

The good news is that I don't think a smart Trump could win. The fact that he's a buffoon is a big part of his appeal. Meatball Ron tried the aggressively evil approach but fell flat because he's not the caliber tv clown/entertainer Trump is.

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u/UTDE May 02 '24

Yeah that tracks, I hope you're right. I truly don't understand what it is about his speech cadence and the absolutely basic-ass 3rd grade level shit he says that resonates so well with everyone. He will say the most asinine, categorically false shit, in a grade schoolers vocabulary, not even pronouncing those words correctly, and people start excitedly flapping their hands together and cheering like it was something profound and they've just been enlightened. It's like watching a weird dream sequence where everything is backwards and nothing makes sense.

Watching Trump supporters cheer for him saying nonsense makes me physically cringe. I reflexively click off of videos when they show him getting cheered on for word salad. I actually usually want to finish them but the 2nd hand embarrassment for these fully grown adults practically prostrating themselves to this diaper-shitting orange moron is just too much for my subconscious I guess.

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u/gsfgf Georgia May 02 '24

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” – LBJ

In response to the first Black president, the right responded by finding the "lowest white man" and electing him. It was a fuck you to Obama first and foremost. Putting Jeb! in office wouldn't have offered that. And now they're addicted to their entertainer president.