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    The GOP always votes Red, no matter who.

    They literally don’t though. They voted for Trump because they liked him, not because he ran as a Republican. There’s that phenomenon where Trump voters also vote for candidates like AOC or Bernie Sanders, so… Yeah.

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      A lot of people that voted for Bernie back in the day voted for Trump and then AOC down ballot in 24.

      The far left cannot fathom people making those choices or existing at all it seems. But they really do.

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        The far left cannot fathom people making those choices or existing at all it seems. But they really do.

        Milquetoast liberals are about as much in denial about this as the hard left socialists, maybe even more so.

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          I definitely feel the denial rates on this particular topic lessen the more towards center you get, but I get your point.

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        A lot of people that voted for Bernie back in the day voted for Trump and then AOC down ballot in 24.

        Suuuuuuure they did buddy…

        Now get to sleep so the Easter Bunny has time to hide the eggs.

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            Oh ok…

            That’s saying more people voted her and trump in 2024 than voted her and trump in 2020.

            Not what you claimed it said.

            That number includes people who voted Republican up and down ballot in 2020 just as much as it includes people who voted D for both in 2020.

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                So now you think every Bernie supporter was a Democrat before 2016?

                The connective tissue from Trump to Sanders is something akin to populism — the ruling class sucks — and that rhetoric plays well among a certain class of people who don’t feel the government works for them,” said Joshua Dyck, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

                “The politics of anti-elite grievance is not just popular in the United States and it’s not just popular on the right,” he said. “It is the story of politics right now.”

                You’re doing a great job of illustrating how progressive policy is popular with voters regardless of party tho, so by all means keep going…

                Are you just doing that thing where people assume an article supports them but didn’t take the time to read it?

                Speaking of, here’s the link in case you delete it:

                https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/upshot/voters-trump-bernie-sanders.html

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                  Just keep on making assumptions about me. So far you’ve been wrong every single time lol.

                  I read both the articles before I sent them. I never delete comments or posts. I’m not a Republican. You got any other shit takes you wanna make about me?

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                    I read both the articles before I sent them.

                    Well, do you understand them now?

                    Because it doesn’t really seem like it’s sunk in…