As upsetting as this is, I wonder if this is really all that much more complicated than the President being a lodestar for the Overton Window, incumbent advantage being a thing, and old white men being habitually immune to consequenceshttps://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1324341961294307329 …
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Vapor Weyve Retweeted Ken Tobe
Yeah, this The pandemic is a massive game changer and frankly I don't know if Biden would ever have had any chance of winning without ithttps://twitter.com/KidThorazine/status/1324345337688084481 …
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Well, he's saying the opposite, that the pandemic energized a bunch of Trump voters who are strongly emotionally committed to the idea that the virus is a hoax
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Honestly I think it's plausible that COVID-19 energized just as many Republican as Democratic votes and that, perversely, its effect on the result of the election may have been a wash
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obviously we're all obsessed with the ec but worth comparing these two figurespic.twitter.com/T5k9hBIqcr
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Regardless of what side people ended up on it's pretty clear COVID-19 had generally pushed "political engagement" in America to its highest ever level Possibly partly just as a practical consequence of people being trapped at home with nothing to do but follow the news
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