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voidfunctoday at 5:53 AM5 repliesview on HN

Why would they stop something that a huge majority of people voted for and want?

Trump won the popular vote and if we use logic from above all the non-voters are in fact supporters as well.


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piva00today at 8:25 AM

As far as I understand the US president is not a king that governs by decree, there's a whole other branch of government also elected to represent the will of the people, a branch where negotiations, debates, voting takes place to determine how the country should be.

People voted for Trump which had as one of its key promises during election "no more wars", perhaps it's ok that the another branch of government stop something which people didn't vote for?

NDlurkertoday at 7:53 AM

Trump had 2,284,967 more votes than Harris. 77,302,580 people voted for him. That's not a huge majority of people.

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watwuttoday at 7:56 AM

How come this logic does not apply to democratic politicians? Why is it that them winning election by small margin does not imply that everything they do is good and legit for conservative people like you?

Hikikomoritoday at 7:09 AM

Did they? Or did Trump say no more wars?

DiabloD3today at 5:59 AM

Unfortunately, there seems to be no proof he actually won the popular vote.

Trump has admitted openly that he won due to mass tampering with voting machines, and thanked Elon Musk for his help.

Your analogy falls apart.

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