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Trump didn’t win by “tens of thousands of voters”. I just checked and he won by almost 3M votes.

I’m not saying that Trump and the Republicans didn’t engage in voter suppression. It just doesn’t cover enough of the votes.

The post mortem is still pending but the theme is that, like most elections that Democrats lose, they failed to coalesce their base. They didn’t speak to the working man and tried to convince everyone that the economy was fine. While GDP might be good, you can’t explain that to the single mother of three working two jobs.

Sure wages are higher now than they were under Trump but the dollar simply doesn’t go as far because of rampant greed disguised as inflation.

The Democrats won’t learn their lesson. They’ll continue to slide toward the center instead of leaning more progressive.

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I understated the number since I was going off of memory. It’s closer to 2.7 million. So yeah, it COULD have made a difference.

Here’s the shorter video that introduced me to the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfs2kC0xOmU

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