2. I mean Trump came within 44,000 votes in 3 states (Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin) of winning the electoral college even with a 7 million popular vote loss. Far too close for comfort. A reflection of the badness of the electoral college, yes, but something more.
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3. Trump got 11 million more votes in 2020 than in 2016. Fortunately, Biden got 15 million more votes than Hillary Clinton. Still: it's hard to deny that Trump mobilized a lot more people over time even as he presided over disaster. It's worth asking why.
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4. Polling pretty consistently showed that Trump got high ratings on economy and poor on everything else. That's due to 2 things: Fed Reserve moving to full employment policy (with rise in real wages) & robust CARES act (with UI top-up).
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5. As bad as Trump was, there are things worth copying: bullying the Fed to do full employment & low interest, generous stimulus (and sign the damn checks), & in general concrete results for supporters. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-learn-trump-economy/ …
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50,000 votes switched in a handful of states and... Even after the last 4 years, and the pandemic... he was that close.
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a little over 20,000 switched from Biden to Trump would have done it.
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It's not interesting. It's called white supremacy. It's not some deep mystery that needs unraveling.
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Absent the pandemic he might have won
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The fact that despite the pandemic it was still a somewhat close election means he probably would have won without it, yeah.
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