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I'm constantly marveling at Trump's luck as a politician. He only won in 2016 because he ran against one of the Democrats' weakest candidates. In 2024 he ends up running against someone even weaker.
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Counterpoint is that if the other possibilities were so much stronger, why didn’t they win their own party’s nomination?
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I'd posit that Good At Party Primary and Nomination and Good At Getting Elected are not definitely linked, and are not mutually exclusive. That being said, I'd have a hard time pointing to anyone in 2016 who would've done better in the general. Especially the guy I liked who SUCKED at primaries
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That the media’s ongoing crusade against Democrats gets disappeared from these conversations makes me want to scream.
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That's a solid, incredibly relevant and important point. The fact that PoC women Democrats get the lion's share of that crusading cannot be overstated, either.
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It’s worse, true. But only a little bit. They’ve been trying to weaken and delegitimize Biden’s presidency almost from the outset. Certainly from the Afghanistan withdrawal.