McCaskill: ‘I’m Bitter’ Trump Didn’t Pay Higher Political Price for January 6

Agree, and the fact that the Republican Party couldn’t exile him or have put forth someone better than him is a testament to their depravity.

 

This guy was inches away from being POTUS. Why didn’t we give him a chance ? Would inflation have been as bad ? Would we be on the brink of WWIII ?

 

Gotta agree with anyone who believes there should be justice for a criminal traitor.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with that. But I also I think it says something about the other side that they couldn’t put up someone better to beat Trump. Seems to me, middle America weighed those legitimate concerns about Trump against the vision of the Democrats and found that vision worse.

 

Lock her up

 

I suspect that this is too much of a cognitive framing for this. There was actually an interesting dynamic to the election. People who regularly paid attention to politics and regularly voted shifted pretty heavily (I think it was about 5%) to Harris relative to their prior voting behavior. On the other hand, people who rarely vote and paid little attention to politics shifted about 15% for Trump.

This suggests that you can't really turn this into some sort of deep, cognitive processing. A consumer marketer would refer to this as a "low involvement" decision, with relatively limited mental resources dedicated to the decision. Decisions at that level don't tend to occur because of the reasons attributed to them when we deeply think about decision-making. On average, low involvement decisions tend to be more emotional and based on how something feels, as people don't dedicate the resources to find out the facts and figures behind their decision. I should note that all people make low involvement decisions every day, so this isn't meant as a put down, just a description.

 

The voters simply didn't buy the democrat/MSM narrative that 1/6 was anything more than a mostly peaceful protest and the way the criminal justice system handled it just drove more people to republicans.

 

Exactly right!

 

Neither could the Democrats.

 

J6. Dummyrat holiday.

It's "the Feast of the Epiphany" to a lot more ppl than it is noteworthy day to the TDS afflicted as "the day [they] almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!"

 

Trump is smart, patriotic, charismatic, tough and successful.

Your party nominated a traitorous low IQ cackling hyena who got to her position by lying on her back.

 

I'm still rilly rilly mad at the MSM for trying to push that "false narrative."

 

For what? Daring to criticize the orange god? I thought free speech was important, but I guess that only applies to the maga sycophants.

 

I do not think Democrats are ready to accept that their Lawfare against Trump after he left office is part of the reason that Republicans were not able to exile him. It continued to highlight him and keep him in the news. It made him a martyr with the base which was something that neither DeSantis or Haley could overcome.

 

He is joking.

 

Incumbents usually have an advantage in elections. 2024, the opposite was true. If you include Trump's victory, challengers won 40 of 54 elections in countries considered a democracy. It was a result of post COVID recovery. And Trump did a good job posting the blame on Biden/Harris for things that were happening all over the globe.

It didn't help that Biden refused to drop out until late in the game. His debate was an unmitigated disaster and probably an event that the Ds couldn't recover from. Biden was too old, and no other D candidate was enough of a known quantity to make up the ground already lost in such a short time. Maybe had Biden declared he wasn't running and the Ds had a full primary, things could have been different. But we'll never know.

What we do know, is in less than two weeks, Trump will be President again. And he promised a lot of things that I doubt he'll be able to deliver upon. There are already cracks in the Trump/Musk love affair, and if we learned anything from Trump 45, those who don't fully bow down to Trump won't last long with Trump 47.

 

TDS inhibits sense of humor. It's a well known symptom.

 

Especially as trump encouraged the violence.