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Originally Posted by GGG
It depends if you are willing to wait for the collapse of the system the voting republican as a progressive is probably correct. You need to make conditions bad enough that you get mass strikes and protest. So a vote for a third party is a vote for long term institutional change. It’s not likely to happen but the Democrats missed a layup here. Biden is remarkably poor.
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What layup did he miss?
The president's party constantly gets decimated in the US in the non-presidential election year votes. It doesn't make sense to people outside of the US for the most part where Trump and Republicans are wildly unpopular but they seem to be treated as a normal political party in the US so these results are very much in line with what you'd expect, particularly when people don't feel the economy is doing well and are worried about inflation. Don't get me wrong - he's not crushing it, but he seems to be well within the range of a normal president.