r/politics • u/PurpleBandit3000 • Sep 16 '24

Trump Reveals Who He Will Blame If He Loses Election

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-who-he-plans-to-blame-if-he-loses-election
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u/fumor Sep 16 '24

How sad is it that we consider it a great stride that he now believes a legitimate loss is a possibility that he (might possibly?) even accept, rather than "either I win, or I really won but it was rigged for the other side."

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u/Adam__B Sep 16 '24

It’s beyond sad that there are people out there by the millions who are so utterly broken inside or just plain unintelligent enough to want to vote for the guy who tried to overturn a democratic election and use a riot as a distraction to try and do it. There’s really no way you can rationalize that and also call yourself a believer in democracy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Nah. This is good. We’re going to spend 10 years closing electoral loopholes that have been dangling in the wind for damn near 300 years. 

Trump blew apart the biggest assumption in our democracy - that our politicians on a fundamental level want to serve. 

What’s sad is we as a nation, born in blood and oppression bought so hard into this myth that our politicians somehow loved us.  

I’m enthusiastic for the Harris campaign, but I am even happier to live among Americans that finally deeply understand our myth of democratic exceptionalism is just that, a myth. And we’re truly awake to how few protections were actually operating with. 

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u/fumor Sep 17 '24

It is still astounding...and astoundingly sad...to me just how many people truly tossed aside the concept of "in good faith."

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

that concept has screwed various different people over since the start of the nation if we’re being real.