Were they out there campaigning hard? Were they even the ballot in swing states? Was there a slew of people endorsing them like what happened with Gore.
Did they having hanging Chad's?
Bush won 35 electoral votes over Kerry. That's a big margin. And Bush wasn't literally insane.
And that was 4 years later. Third parties were barely heard from after 4 years of Trump.
But now its almost 8 years later and we have RFK, thst guy who called Trump brother and Stien trying get in on the action. Its a fucking shit show.
My point is that just because a Democrat lost a close election in 2000 does not make campaigning against a Democrat in 2000 a sin. It legitimately boggles my mind that you think the link should be obvious, that any opposition to the Democratic party, past or present, should be equated to what I presume you'd call naziism.
Ok so we're back to my point. If you think that anyone campaigning against Bush (and nobody knew what Bush was going to do in office -- it's not like pollsters had predicted 9/11!) was just as bad as you think those campaigning against Trump are, despite the vast gulf between what one could have expected Bush to do to the country and what we today can expect Trump to do, there's only one explanation: you just think it shouldn't be OK for people to run against the Democratic party.
Increasingly I'm convinced that that is going to be Trump's greatest legacy, once he's dead and buried of heart failure or whatever -- the final destruction of American liberal democracy, as both major parties abandon traditional political modes for gerrymandering, court-stacking, executive fiat -- probably, in the end, a military coup. The only question is whether the generals on TV will have an (R) or a (D) next to their name.
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u/CanadianPanda76 ◬ Oct 18 '24
Huh? Was Kerry losing due to third parties?
Were they out there campaigning hard? Were they even the ballot in swing states? Was there a slew of people endorsing them like what happened with Gore.
Did they having hanging Chad's?
Bush won 35 electoral votes over Kerry. That's a big margin. And Bush wasn't literally insane.
And that was 4 years later. Third parties were barely heard from after 4 years of Trump.
But now its almost 8 years later and we have RFK, thst guy who called Trump brother and Stien trying get in on the action. Its a fucking shit show.