re: Prepare to bend over: Biden to announce 1.8 trillion in tax hikes - Updated expenditures

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If that were true Trump would not have polled so well within the GOP nor would down ballot candidates have sought (and they still are) his endorsement.

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If you’re going to rely only on turning out your base you’re constantly going to be looking at winning by a razor thin margin at best, it’s one thing to do that in the climate that existed in 2016 as an outsider challenger against a deeply unpopular opponent, but trying the same thing when your record is under scrutiny and your opponent is far less disliked is something else.

And you can complain about people being too emotional all you want, to discount the human element and basic desire people have to at the very least not dislike their representatives as people is naive.

I can make the case that he’d have won Arizona if he had just kept his mouth shut about McCain all those years. It was vindictive and had nothing to do with policy. All it did was serve to piss off a bunch of voters in a swing state. If you’re going to be that undisciplined then don’t complain when you lose.