• ShowMePotatoSalad@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Or that Dick Cheney said he would vote for a democrat. You’d think that would help influence a few more people. The guys who were considered the hard right just 10-15 years prior are now saying “nah, fuck that guy. He’s a lunatic”.

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      You’d think that would help influence a few more people.

      Who is that convincing? Nobody likes Dick Cheney, so nobody is taking his advice on who to vote for. What it did is convince some Democrats that their party is even further to the right than they thought.

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        19 hours ago

        The people it would be influencing would be the older republicans. Basically the Reaganites. They’re not the brainwashed maga, but still vote republican. It should have helped show them that the guy they thought of as a warhawk and far right wing won’t even vote for the guy then maybe they shouldn’t either.

        Admittedly, I didn’t like Harris walking around with Liz Chaney because main steam democrats are already too centrist. It would never help sway republican voters but would scare away democratic voters to be seen hand-in-hand with a person who praised trump in his first term.

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          They’re not the brainwashed maga, but still vote republican.

          Do those people actually exist? I thought that all of those people had converted to MAGA.

          It’s hard for me to imagine somebody liking Dick Cheney, but it’s even harder for me to imagine somebody liking him so much that he could convince them to vote for the opposition. WTF were the Democratic consultants smoking?!

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      2 days ago

      “Why didn’t the endorsement of Satan himself, and not the cool one that believes in free will and feminism, the rapey and murder one, not sway people to our cause?” - libs