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All your posts are with the assumption that everyone wants the same thing as you, and anyone who doesn't agree with that is wrong.
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Do you actually want to engage with the substance of my post, or are you just going to deflect? Which M4A candidates underperformed in their races in the same manner that moderates did? Which "progressive" policies (outside of maybe "defund the police") are massively unpopular with the majority of the population? Why did Biden lose Florida but a $15/h minimum wage pass by a landlslide?
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A lot of us were pretty happy with the way the country and government was run under Obama, and are pretty happy about going back to that.
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Yes, white suburbanites who were generally already doing okay and are able to afford things such as health care and housing have the privilege of primarily focusing on relatively trivial issues around presidential decorum. Good for you.
There is clearly a massive segment of the population who were so fed up with the "politics as usual" of the Obama years (especially after being promised monumental changes in 2008), that they handed Trump and can of gasoline and a pack of matches.
You have a populist wave in the U.S. right now that probably accounts for 60% of voters (combining right and left populists) and who knows how many non-voters. This is a direct rejection of establishment politics but centrists keep sticking their heads in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist.