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But aren’t we though, in a way? A bunch of people looked at everything Trump and Project 2025 promised, and said, ‘meh, seems fine, I see no reason to vote against this.’ That means they either agreed with what those things were saying, or at least don’t mind them.
In other words, tacit support.
I think that undersells how uninformed most folks are, and how weak critical thinking skills are, on average. Too many people were credulous when trump said he didn't know anything about project 2025, and many people currently getting deported believed they'd only deport "hardened criminals". So I don't think it's even being fine with these terrible policies, I think a lot of people were simply ignorant.
The ignorance is by design of course, so I'm not trying to pin the blame solely on individuals: the disinformation landscape is a huge boost for right wing extremism, and of course the Democrats themselves just constantly shit the bed. The Dems aren't Left enough to galvanize support from people who want real change in the system (so they say "fuck it" and either sit out, or become accelerationists), and even the policies they do tout that would help at the margins don't get any attention - in part because they're consistently bad at messaging, but also because nuanced, calm reasoning isn't as attention grabbing as hate and fear.
Most ignorance is willful.
And I think it should be obvious to anyone with eyes and two functional brain cells at this point that the Dems are the controlled opposition party.