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by wyclif·1y ago·view on hn ↗
Americans inexplicably re-elected a wildly incompetent conman to be president

In fact, this was totally and easily explicable after the dominant political party tried to convince Americans that their current leader was not suffering from severe cognitive decline and was "sharp as a tack" (a Biden admin talking point) and that NPCs lying to Americans about Trump being "easy to beat" by Kamala and also lying to them about Trump calling Charlottesville protestors "very fine people" and thinking that those fake attempts to make Trump look like he was endorsing Nazis wouldn't backfire explosively.

So, no, it was not "inexplicable" at all but it was rather Whiplash Effect initiated by media narratives originating in the Democrat ecosystem. And don't forget: Trump, Elon and Rogan are all ex-Democrats. I wonder, too, if the author was one of those people who deluded himself into thinking "Kamala is a great candidate" against all the evidence.

So the "Russiagate" hoax failed, "Kamala is awesome" failed, elites orienting themselves around appeasing far left pressure groups failed, smug contempt for middle America failed (astonishingly) and yet it is "inexplicable" why Orange Man Bad won the election!

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I consider the relative ease with which many people can imitate him to be the reason he is in office
You guys are so triggered by that "fine people" line lmao
Always bewildering to me when people look at the demographics of conservatives, leaning old and rich, and think that they just fell out of the coconut tree. No. Those people were sometimes "progressives" in their time and later became conservatives.

Same as it ever was. No further explanation needed. Not a new phenomenon.

ed: "No, it must be the fault of the left." must be a reassuring thought, but let me occams razor that for you: when these people were younger, they were selfish, and as they weren't yet the status quo, they were progressive. When these people got older, they were still selfish, and as they were the status quo, they were conservatives. Simple.