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It really is true that for some people history began in 2016.
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Tbh 2024 vindacated 2016 nonvoters.
I would've voted for Hillary 2016 but didn't because I was totally demoralized by her platform, Standing Rock, and the bitter primary contest plus I had work that day so it just didn't happen. I always felt bad like I should've but seeing Kamala shit the bed so hard with the same tired routine as Hillary made me realize that I hadn't been nearly hard enough on Democratic candidates.
8 years after Trump's first victory and they learned absolutely nothing, basically ran the same playbook and lost even harder. I didn't want to be divisive but apparently I wasn't divisive enough. My whole life and theory of politics was basically we needed to stop the Republicans before we could pull Democrats left, a giant crock of shit. Now I'm more interested in stopping bad Democrats rather than generic Republicans, gonna try that for a decade or two and see how it goes
watching 2016 democrats and their inability to react is like watching 2010 hungarian opposition try to react to orban. y'all are 10 years in, it took this country 16 years to produce any kind of alternative and it didnt come from the "traditional" opposition.
edit: and even then, it's not the sort of opposition you'd like
I voted for Biden in 2020 because I really wanted Trump to lose. I knew there was an effectively zero percent chance Biden and the dems would pack the court but I have to admit that I tried to imagine there was a smidgeon of hope. Whoever the president is in 2029 and whatever the make up of congress is - there will be an effectively zero percent chance the court is packed. The dems will never do it.
Everybody in the 2028 dem clown car collection of presidential hopefuls will use their court reform go-to of saying they want term limits and an ethics code which - of course - is fucking stupid and requires voters to keep on voting and voting and voting as we wait and wait and wait for the fuckers to die of old age, terminal illness, or misadventure.