Hard to debate the central premise here: Trump-led Republicans have underperformed in three consecutive elections in part because they're still deluded by a 2016 black swan event into overestimating the public's taste for loud obnoxious jerks.
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One of the Democrats' main challenges is that they don't really have a clear national base (despite over-performance among, e.g., Black Americans) and one of Republicans' main challenges is that they DO have an identifiable national base, and it's crazy.
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I think an important modern political skill is something like ~optimal onlineness~.
I don't think you can afford to be in politics and have no sense of internet discourse, but if your primary feedback mechanism is "maximize RTs" you're gonna be an asshole, period.
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(delete the word political from the above tweet and it holds up pretty well)
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The premise is definitely true but a couple ppl in that picture keep winning their elections
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2016 was like a bad shooter making a 3 in the first quarter. The points are nice, but it means the rest of the night he's shooting the second he gets the ball, and probably missing.
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Um, desantis has become the most successful GOP politician and is he clearly the biggest “jerk” aside from trump
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Lol you hacks claimed in 2018 you would take both, and 2020 it would be like 1932
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Yes, the better reading of 2016 was that a "normal" Republican might've defeated HRC. The same party winning the WH three times in a row is already rare.
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Sure, there's genuine backlash to "decorum" that just serves as a pretext for ideological straightjacketing to the status quo, but even the most populist of voters aren't really inspired or animated by a political platform solely consisting of "be as crude as possible!".
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