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palmotea • today at 6:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> That's like blaming a rape victim for being bad at fighting off her rapist.

WTF? The Democrats lost some important elections to a fool, that's nothing like getting raped.

> If you want the answer, look at Republicans. They nominated him twice, and the second time around the Republican base ignored all of the moral issues they knew about and voted for him anyway because they wanted the chaos and anger.

I'm not saying there are no problems with Republicans, but that the bigger, more important, and more tractable issue is that the Democrats could lose to someone like that, twice.

Complain about how bad Trump is all you want, but if you lose to him, it's pretty clear you are in some important sense worse than him. Focus on fixing that, because bitching about the other side is going to do no good.


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gamblor956 • today at 8:24 PM

There you go again trying to shift the blame from Republicans to Democrats.

Trump won with 49.8% of the vote, which is the lowest % since Bush in 2000. Democrats voted against him. Independents voted against him. But MAGA voters loved his race-baiting and voted for him in overwhelming numbers, and even anti-Trump Republican voters decided that they could live with the racism and corruption and destruction of civil liberties if they could end abortion at the federal level and make all dozen trans athletes in the country disappear.

The problem is, and always was, the Republican voters. Blame them.

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