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[–]MarquisBoniface 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

He lost because people have become exhausted from his nonstop shenanigans and god awful ability to govern.

You are omitting the fact that the people exhausted by him weren't an active civilian population, but rather key activists in voting apparatus

[–]Dachshund 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Trump is a guy who cannot say, "I lost" and cannot admit that he was wrong. Seriously, you could put a gun to his head and demand he say the words "I was wrong my bad" and he wouldn't budge.

This was demonstrated clearly by his response to Covid. After Trump said that Covid wasn't a big deal at the very beginning of the first wave that was it. Game over . From then on there was no hope whatsoever for Trump to start taking the virus seriously and put forth any effort to flatten the curve. I know...I know. Covid has a very low mortality rate but its also packed our hospitals beyond capacity.

Covid was the shenanigan that broke the camels back. He would have won handily if he had done two things. Encouraged people to listen to what the doctors and scientists say we should do and leaned on the senate to get another stimulus passed. Whether one actually got passed or not doesn't really matter. The optics would have been a game changer.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

covid is low mortality and hospotals are actually pretty empty, they laid tons off cuz no one was going to them.

now you're right tho, Trump first said it was no big deal, and a hoax, but then he was wearing a mask and had fauci and birx doing press conferences and then even Trump got covid himself and had to go to the damn hospital. That was it there actually, demoralized supporters. He should have either stuck with one strategy, call it a hoax or take it serious. Can't be wishy washy and have it both ways. That shows lack of leadership. Not that Biden is better but Biden had the advantage of going for low IQ voters, Trump needed the high IQ people to vote for him but not enough did

[–]wendolynne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

His style is to insult marginalized people. He insulted enough people that he lost the vote. He hasn't insulted "his base" so they don't see it. Really wide margins, that's how he lost.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

yup he got people all mad and they voted against him, not really voting for biden or kamala, just voting against trump. Trump also did things like putting a woman with black kids in as supreme court justice, gave a war medal to a black guy, did shit with bump stocks, half measures that were not going to get him democrat votes and just pissed off his supporters. So why do them. Losing on purpose? Just stupid? Ordered to by Israel? Who knows.

[–]MarquisBoniface 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yup he got people all mad and they voted against him, not really voting for biden or kamala, just voting against trump.

That's cognitive dissonance, and leaves out people who aren't fans of Trump but think the Dems are absolutely insane/unacceptable

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah I just feel like that group was not going to be big enough to get a repub voted. Those kinds of folks have high IQs so if it is a lesser of evils thing they just don't vote because they know it leads to us going down the drain, not voting is a protest against that. In 2016 many millions were excited by trump.