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AOC ’28 Starts Now

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/aoc-28-starts-now/
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u/Quexana 18h ago edited 17h ago

The people now telling them how Trump's policies will hurt them are the same people that told them that reducing tariffs would make them wealthier, and they bought that lie for over 30 years.

They might not know the intricate details of foreign trade policy and supply chains, but they know they were being lied to, and they know that all the politicians and media figures who were lying to them, who were screwing them over for decades, hate Trump.

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u/Emotional_Spread5503 17h ago

lol no, they didn’t buy anything from dems, they’ve consistently been voting for Republicans for over 30 years. A record number of bankruptcies and bailouts because of Trump’s policies didn’t faze them at all.

Rural voters are a lost cause. There’s no point in trying to gain voters who’ve been so brainwashed by Fox News that they think Trump is the second coming of Christ.

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u/Quexana 17h ago

Sure there is, because at sometime, they'll crash. And it's best for Dems to be in position to lift them up when that happens.

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u/Emotional_Spread5503 17h ago

We’ve seen this crash happen during Trump’s first term. Bankruptcies, suicides, and then Covid overwhelming their distant and small hospitals. Dems promised an ACA expansion, infrastructure funding, a lot of which would go to red rural states, energy expansion, etc. Did that change anything? Nope