• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There was a reasonably strong slate in 2020, and Dem primary voters passed them over for the old white guy as a hedge against the voting preferences of casually-racist and sexist boomer voters in the general electorate. The shit of it is that their reasoning wasn’t without merit either. But that’s left us where we are now, with a milquetoast octogenarian as the last bulwark against putting the fascist septuagenarian dementia patient back in charge, and nobody likes those options even if one is obviously less bad than the other.

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      9 months ago

      There was a reasonably strong slate in 2020

      Tulsi Gabbard looked promising at the time; too bad she went off the rails.

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        9 months ago

        She went off the rails long before that, but it took some time for her fan base to catch up with reality.