- 20 Mar 2021 18:37
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I'd give you 100 likes if I could, I agree with you on all except maybe the last sentence, although the idea of a Palin comeback makes me shudder I just don't see it as likely. If (and that's a big if, because I think he only floats the idea of 2024 for attention) Trump ran in 2024 I'd see his running mate someone more like Candace Owens or Tulsi Gabbard.
B0ycey wrote:This doesn't seem to be the case though. I agree that Trump has lost the moderates and would be unlikely to win an election should he ever run again, but to say that now people have experienced populism and seen its tragic effects, they would be wise to it now is ignoring what is going on. Trump remains the most popular candidate from the Republican base, 30% of America believe the election was a fraud WITH ZERO evidence, QAnonists still believe his predictions with a whooping none coming true and currently America is a divided nation with both sides of the political divide hating each other so much they consider them the enemy. We has seen the beginnings, it's effects and ultimately what should have been the end populism yet it still exists and perhaps it is as dangerous as ever.
The issue is that populism didn't just come from no where. People voted Trump because they are getting left behind in the "American Dream". They blame everyone except the people who they should blame (bourgeois) and instead it becomes a fight involving nationalism vs socialism. So if you do not address the wealth divide, don't invest in production or whatever the economic state/city activity is, keep on retaining a minimum wage that isn't even livable, tax the poor whilst given tax breaks to the rich, rely on the trickle down effect to stimulate growth, please your sponsors rather than your voters and keep a generally broken system, populism doesn't shrink, it grows. Trump was the ultimate false prophet. He said the right things whilst doing the opposite. He was the swampyist swamp thing in the swamp. But that didn't matter. People invested in him and as such believed his lies. And the next person who does that but isn't Trump is likely to win the presidency unless Biden addresses the things I mentioned before. Palin on a Trump ticket with four years of the status quo is perhaps a sure thing for victory because people will not give up on hope on a broken system regardless what they seen before.
I'd give you 100 likes if I could, I agree with you on all except maybe the last sentence, although the idea of a Palin comeback makes me shudder I just don't see it as likely. If (and that's a big if, because I think he only floats the idea of 2024 for attention) Trump ran in 2024 I'd see his running mate someone more like Candace Owens or Tulsi Gabbard.