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I agree to some extent. But you have to realize that it isn't 4% of voters. Trump won ~77 million votes this election vs Kamala's ~75 million. That's incredibly close, mainly because she tried to pander to the majority.
There's nothing she could've really done much differently this cycle that would've clenched the election with 100% certainty. There were simply too many factors working against her, like the shitty economy and the GOP's massive disinformation campaigns promising to turn everything around. A huge chunk of voters are already admitting how "shocked" they are with some of the shit Trump's administration is doing. This is due to microtargeted advertising, meaning that the many voters get completely different political ads on social media that leave out their extremist positions. My theory is that the DNC seems to not be very good at taking advantage of this capability, choosing to just provide blanketed campaign messaging that's mainly the same for everyone.
Sorry, got a bit rambly and off track there. I'm tired.
Or maybe it's the fact that all social media platforms are in the hands of a few people who happened to stand in the front row during Trump's inauguration.
Dems don't have the capability cause their enemies control the algorithms.
People like Zuckerberg only care about money and power. Meta will happily accept the DNC's advertising money.
That all being said, the DNC could've also outlawed political advertising on social media when they had the majority in the Senate and house years ago.
They support Trump cause his entire platform is "give billionaires free reign and no taxes". They'll never support Democrats over him, and never have.
And outlawing political advertising (by private actors) on social media would have been reversed by the Supreme Court. Even before it was taken over by the right. It's very clearly against the 1st amendment.