Absolutely, sure you can apportion blame elsewhere but the Pied Pier strategy in the first term alone means they should get a large amount
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Only in the sense that the point of liberalism is to enable fascist leaders to take power mostly unchallenged once the liberals fail at being secret fascists.
No but they should have played hardbal when they had the chance. They had the numbers; they could have passed laws to prevent a stanky ass old fascist from fucking this country up.
Knowing that senile old Nazi was getting the office back, I feel like the Dems had a DUTY to push thru as many guardrail laws as possible. Biden should have announced felons cannot run for president if they can't even vote.
Ofc we've seen what king shithead thinks about all these rules--- apparently they don't apply to him...
Biden should have announced felons cannot run for president if they can't even vote.
Nah, this ain't it.
You could've also said ”yes, Democrats are to blame” because that's what your post really amounted to.
Indirectly? Yes. They're responsible for creating and upholding a declining status quo while suppressing all left-wing alternatives and not only allowing the right to run wild but also legitimizing them through concessions and appeasement.
Directly? Also yes, because they literally promoted Trump thinking he'd be easier to beat and that they could more easily sell themselves as the "lesser evil" and coerce voters into coming out if they were up against him (which they've also done with other far-right candidates).
Literally any scale, any perspective you want to use, they deserve plenty of blame.
It takes the Biden from the basket it rubs the Biden on the skin, or else it gets the Trump again.
I think of Trump more as a product of the system that was inevitable. He took the already existing energy of the people who were disillusioned and crushed by the capitalist system but misguided on the causes and solution. I wouldn't necessarily say it was only that democrats that propagated this system, though they contributed heavily to it.
They shoulder a lot of the blame, as long as you don't go so far that you forget the decades of right wing media extremism backed by oil billionaires that also shoulders a lot of the blame.
The average American's political consciousness only sees two sides: libs with their rainbow imperialism, and chuds with their overt imperialism, and they by and large just side with the one that makes them feel better about themselves.
Kind of tangential, but it’s supremely ironic that the reason burgerland Amerikkka sees Trump as ultra competent businessman who’s always on the winning end of the deal is because NBC rehabilitated his image with The Apprentice.
Yes 100% specifically Obama for extra blame