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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So your solution is to tell people who listen to Trump or voted for Brexit that they’re fools? You think that will really change minds?
The question you need to ask is why so many more people today are vulnerable to the appeals of demagogues. It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago for someone hated by the Republican establishment win the presidential nomination. It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago for a referendum that every major party in the UK either opposed or remained neutral about to win.
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Seems plainly evident you aren't going to convince people they've been conned. If 30-40% of the country denies reality you can only appeal to the remaining 60-70%.
Enough people in the US woke up to Trump's demagoguery, it's a shame it took 500k dead from Coronavirus. The UK exporters, fishermen and Northern Irish seem to be waking up to reality as well. Trump and Brexit won by the slimmest of margins to begin with, neither delivered anything close to what was promised.
All they have left is culture war nonsense and attacking centrists and liberals as socialists. Donald Trump didn't have a single coherent policy prescription for the 2020 election. Sleepy Joe won the Presidential election by barely leaving his house.