• happybadger [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Trump in 2020 would have been the harm reduction candidate through his incompetence and a democratic majority in the house/senate. We'd have the exact same COVID denialism, lack of economic relief, wars, inaction toward LGBT and reproductive rights, funding of the police and military, and border policy. The only difference would be that liberals would have to put their names next to opposing those things. Even if it's only rhetorical, the left would slip in like it did in 2018. Instead Blue MAGA gets to hoot and holler at the worst of their politicians and we are tied to them by the voters.

    Democrats would be entering 2024 in a much stronger position with a much stronger candidate. 2022 and 2024 would both have more radicals, there'd be more opposition to Israel and less support for Ukraine, Ukraine would have probably ended much sooner with the same result and hundreds of thousands of lives saved. Liberals would still believe COVID exists and BLM could have probably maintained momentum as the economy continued to get worse. Locally the democrats were instead allowed to take comfort in voting blue no matter who working as a result of being the opposition party. They voted blue and checked out entirely leaving us with functionally right-wing politicians who rode the 2018 progressive wave.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      100% agree with everything you said

      Trump tries to be 100% Hitler but is so incompetent he only does like 70% of his Hitlering.

      Biden gets to be 99% Hitler with no opposition while saying “Please vote for me not Trump I promise I’ll be 100% Hitler he’s only like 70% Hitler I can be 100% Hitler just vote for meeeee”

    • edge [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      We wouldn’t have the same wars. The Russia-Ukraine war is a project of Biden and Nuland. Starting in 2014 when he was VP and picking back up in 2021 when he became president.

      If Trump had been re-elected, it’s likely Russia wouldn’t have invaded and the conflict would stay frozen. Or even if they did, Trump wouldn’t support Ukraine so it would have been over pretty quick.