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"My biggest concern is staying out of war so I voted for the guy I think is Hitler." (lemm.ee)
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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the average American voter lol. Trump was like the hack that made all their crazy go GOP. Usually there is enough crazy people for both sides

[–] bmdhacks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Totally. Matt Yglesias calls this the "crank realignment."

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You should submit this as a post. Or I might just repost it. It's insightful!

I really dig the explanation of how the two parties have kind of worked for so long, in spite of everything, and now that balance is disrupted since the "cranks" moved to one party.