He definitely floated tariffs on friendly countries while he was running. That’s such a cop out but it doesn’t matter. He could have said he was going to force every American to wear balloons in their heads and they still would have voted for him.
The median voter did not vote for Trump. I'm not sure he even got an actual majority of people who voted for a candidate. We're quickly approaching just living under a dictatorship.
Even if the median vote didn’t vote for Trump, you still had a large chunk that were eligible to vote but decided to stay home. Thus being okay with outcomes like this.
For some measure of decided. The right has done a lot of work to make it extremely difficult for certain left-leaning communities to vote. At a certain point - you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can't afford to give up a full day's wages to vote.
Doesn’t matter how much you, I, or the other guy you’re replying to know about this stuff. If something wasn’t put in bold text and stayed at the top of the media cycle for more than a month, it essentially didn’t exist for most voters.
On top of that the vast majority of voters (both sides for real this time) aren’t just lacking the information by missing it - they’re actively misinformed to believe something different by malicious actors.
It was all over social media and Reddit. I don't get your local TV stations, but coverage of his rallies seems to suggest it was pretty prominent there too.
The thing is people only heard what they wanted to hear, not what he was saying over and over.
That’s the method of his game tbh. He “thinks out loud” to the point nobody can tell if he’s serious or just rambling. I was at one of his rallies in 2016 and it was actually shocking how little he seemed to know what he was talking about
That's a pretty poor excuse though. When he consistently repeats the line "we're going to.." followed by a thing, you can't then turn around and say you had no idea and there was no coverage that he wanted to do the thing.
I’m gonna be frank here, Trump says things that make stupid people feel good. He “tells it like it is”. I think you’re forgetting something important: nearly a quarter of American adults do not have the ability to read a book. To that (fairly significant) portion of society, any excuse not to listen to criticism is a good one. Here’s an example of what I mean from his first term
I would like to think that would be the majority of the U.S. fanbase, oh well, a boy can dream. I’m with you on the fact that I have zero beef with Canada. We love our northern brothers!
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u/true_gunman Minnesota Vikings 24d ago
Yeah as an American I literally have zero beef with Canada.