Summary
Donald Trump and Republicans are falsely framing his 2024 election win as a historic “landslide” and sweeping mandate, despite the data showing otherwise.
Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968, and his 307 electoral votes rank low in U.S. history.
Crucial Senate and House gains were limited, with Republicans relying on gerrymandering for their narrow House majority.
This exaggeration of victory serves to justify potential power expansions, but the facts debunk claims of an unprecedented or overwhelming mandate.
This is one defeat that I think we can no longer blame on Russian interference.
Kamala Harris was such a disliked candidate that she lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that previously tried to spark a right wing insurrection against Congress. A convicted felon whose previous tenure led to the Supreme Court bringing back state level abortion bans, and who was running on the manifesto of turning America into a right wing Christian theocracy staffed by Trump loyalists. Not even Hillary Clinton did this terribly.
Biden should never have ran for a second term, given that he was already showing signs of forgetfulness four years ago, and when he was eventually pushed to resign, the Democrats should have held a snap primary instead of immediately backing Harris.
I quote the lyrics of the ABBA’s song: “The winner takes it all - The loser’s standing small”. And this is the truth: in a few years, no one will ask how DT won the election. He simply won and has a strong mandate to pursue his policy. - n’est-ce-pas?
Maybe if we correct the Republicans they’ll listen. Yeah, that’ll work.
It’s not gonna win anything and we shouldn’t act like it will.
Still, no reason not to be correct about it. He’s gonna try and make his delusions national news, so, gotta have the reality out there.
That really doesn’t make me feel that much better about it, but I guess we’re mostly trying to find the corn in the shit on this one, so thanks?
Who cares he still fucking won. We are fucked regardless.
They already have power. They don’t need a justification for expansion they’ll just do it.
Yes and no. All power, ultimately, depends on compliance. Even autocracies. There would not have been a “divine right of kings” if kings did not have a pressing need to assure people of their right to hold power.
The “mandate” narrative is aimed at convincing everyone that their objections are in the minority. That even if they stand up and say something, they’ll simply be the odd one out.
Have you seen the crowd in his 2016 inauguration? It was huuuge. Or how he fit 80,000 people in a 20,000 capacity venue.
People should know by now that he exaggerate everything including the size of his mushroom penis.
That’s not going to fly when the entire country saw him sweep the swing states. That’s part of the fuckiness of the EC, he only won by a tiny margin but visually state after state went red on the TV.
That’s pedantic. They won the trifecta of government. The definition of landslide is academic at this point.
It might only be pedantic/academic if the term was only being used in an educational setting. Instead, it’s bandied about nearly every day since the election, and it does need to stop.
It’s not academic, it’s relative to the various examples he cites in the article
Wait, did a major outlet just use “lie” in its headline?
I’m impressed. Even for an op-ed.
Anyway, this cannot be repeated enough. I’m already sick of people trying to say it’s “historic”, it’s a “landslide”, etc…give me a break.
Who cares about the label? The only descriptor that matters is “President-elect Trump” and that one is not in dispute. The rest is either semantics or copium that doesn’t impact anything in a material fashion.
Well, I can only speak for myself in that terms and facts matter. And I’m not one for letting fascists frame the narrative; they’ll keep pushing the Overton window and pushing and pushing…
When I was younger I thought the saying was, “nip it in the butt”
I dunno it always made sense to me.
Anywho carry on
Please explain what nip it in the butt means.
Pinching off a turtle head to prevent shitting your pants.
Lol thanks
I thought it was “nip it in the butt” as well. Listening to Les Mis 10th Anniversary Edition, the way the gentleman who plays Javert always sounded like “butt” to me as well.
To answer the other commenters question of what would that mean: for years, I thought it meant “nip” like a dog will nip your finger, and “in the butt” was like, “you’d pinch em in the butt” to get them to stop whatever they were doing.
Also thought the line “Burnin’ up his fuel, out there, alone” in Rocket Man was “Burnin’ up the atmos-PHERE, he’s gone” for years before a friend corrected me.
In states where he won, it was either a blood-red wave, or barely past 50%.
I mean, yea? What are the other options?
Half of Lemmy seems to believe that Trump won by a landslide. Remember a comment upvoted like crazy yesterday talking about how hard he won.
I mean I get it, the fact that he won by any amount is horrifying but nuance exists. I’m glad to see this article attempting to clear it up
Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6%, the smallest margin for a winning president since 1968…
What about Trump and Bush 2 both losing the popular vote yet winning the presidency?
That horse left the stable a long time ago. Once the MAGA crowd latches onto something they don’t let go. They’re still claiming TFG won in 2020, for crying out loud.
Doesn’t mean everyone else has to coddle them in their stupid fantasies.
