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I feel like this is indicative of a general shift in the electorate in America. It's hard to be someone that most people like. It's really easy to make most people hate the other guy and then just not be him. In 2016 Clinton tried this with the pied piper strategy, but Trump did a better job of it. People know Hillary, and they don't like her. They didn't know Trump at the time, and I personally know some Bernie voters who went for Trump just because "He's not just another politician, we need a change." In 2018, 2020, and 2022, name recognition hurt Trump and the GOP. Democrats successfully positioned themselves as the people you vote for if you don't like Donald Trump, and they succeeded by a comfortable margin in 2018 and 2020. 2022, historically speaking, should have been an absolute bloodbath for Dems but Trump's polarizing dickishness drove democratic voter turnout and the GOP failed to take control of the Senate and took such a narrow majority in the house that they've been basically non-functional since then. In 2023 Glenn Youngkin was thinking about what a GOP-controlled legislature in Virginia would do for his presidential chances and then Dems overperformed again and now he's not even in the presidential picture and his agenda is being thwarted at every turn.
Now it's 2024 and each candidate is running on a platform that boils down to "vote for me, I'm not that guy that you hate and fear". It'll be interesting to see how it works out, and by interesting I mean that as a queer person I'm terrified because of all the violence.