Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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the Obama administration's behavior, especially post 2012, is good evidence it's not Trump causing the radicalization on the left and they find something to get radicalized and push until they find resistance anyway
no one is coming to save any of us, we're going to have to do something in the real world
Obama is nothing like Mamdami, The Squad, and the DSA. Wd have a Muslim mayor of NYC and a Muslim Senator now. Socialism is massively popular now with young people.
The problem with Trump though is that he super charges the left without actually making any long term gains. Obviously they are going to be pissed and that is fine, but he pisses them off and then does nothing tangible. The things he does do well he communicates poorly on and can all be overturned by the next administration
The only thing he did well was blow open the Overton Window on race, immigration, and white identity, but that has no benefit if nobody does anything with the opportunity.
Obama is largely the same as these three, except earlier, more dangerous and effective. Obama winning in 2012 radicalized and emboldened the left. Mamdani and Abdulla are not Muslims in any meaningful sense; they're empty foreigners who are playing racial resentment politics and saying whatever they need to say to get power just like Obama did. They're the solved meta for leftist politics. The demographic replacement happened before Trump "super charged," them with likely 100,000,000 foreigners in the US by the time he took office.
The American economic system is socialism for the rich and the poor and capitalism for the middle-class. Why wouldn't the young be interested in socialism for themselves as well? The current American economic system is everyone gets stuff except for them and they're looking at their lives being far worse than their parents or their grandparents. They would be interested in anything which gives them answers to these problems.
even if this was true: Oh? Is that it? As opposed to pre-Trump GOP who were constantly trying to convince their voters for decades to accept illegal amnesty deals and destroying the lives of anyone on their own side who even got slightly close to these topics?
sure dude, this has been a fuckup and a failure and a disaster, but having no Trump would have been worse
not that it particularly matters, we didn't know it would end up like this when we first started and trying anything, especially in politics, means putting something on the table and accepting risk you could fail and things get worse
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