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Erich Almasy's avatar

All very fine but if you only watch Fox, read Breitbart, and text X/Twitter you’ll never hear any of these facts no matter how great a leader Democrats unveil. 70% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen. They don’t care about facts. They’d rather listen to fiction.

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Herbert B Rothschild Jr's avatar

Nicely presented, Peter.

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Daniel Davis's avatar

Great article Peter, Nice to have salient facts for a change. If only Dems could have better communication abilities on these and many other issues, like when recessions occur and who is in chargethen, etc, etc. ... and repeat these facts over and over again until they get stuck like trump's lies and nastiness! Repeat X twelve or more!

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Joe Yetter's avatar

Well done.

Our winter of discontent is made far chillier by growing wealth and income inequality, decreasing social mobility (relative to our past), and the devastating synergy of wealth and power we see feeding each other daily: I mean, sure, let's have Elon ($350B) Musk figure out what our nation should do regarding EVs and space exploration.

The end of kakistocracy make a glorious, glorious spring.

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Daniel Davis's avatar

Thanks for the previously unknown word - for me, Joe! It is so perfect for the trump and the evil destructive cabal that worships it.

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Joe Yetter's avatar

"The Economy Has Been Great Under Biden. That’s Why Trump Won."

Here is an interesting take, that a strong economy favors Republicans, and a weak economy favors Democrats, regardless of the incumbent:

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/the-economy-has-been-great-under-biden-thats-why-trump-won

I especially liked the illustration regarding the cycle of risk aversion.

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