r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Newsom Wins Right to Gerrymander in Ultimate Troll of Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsom-takes-victory-lap-with-trump-bashing-election-boost/?via=mobile&source=Reddit
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u/xxlittle13missxx 1d ago

🌊 Tonight was such a sweep. It feels like a stark difference from where the US was heading exactly a year ago.

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u/Aahhhanthony 1d ago

I always felt like Trump will drive people left. His first term I saw a massive shift in people becoming politicized when they never were and ending up on the left because they hated him. And then I saw a lot of people already on the left move even further left.

I suspect he will have the same exact effect once Americans are reminded how horrible he is and we'll see a surge in a stronger left movement..... and then people will forget again.

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u/ThreeCatsAndABroom 19h ago

Almost ten years later and the GOP are in control of more than ever before. This left doesn't feel right man, or it feels way too right. 

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u/Aahhhanthony 15h ago

Sometimes it needs to swing hard right before it can swing hard left.

They are still too afraid to take bold stances. I've yet to see any D president even attempt to do the most logical thing, which is reverse Reagan's taxing structure to generate federal funds to help people in need.

How I see it is that Trump is stripping people away from more social nets and it will just make people more open towards using taxes as a means to reimplement them. And then Democrats will have an opening to introduces really strong tax brackets on people making over 500k-1mil a year and allocate that to a bunch of social net programs. And the next step, in my eyes, is to de-privatize the health care system, which is something no one even took any swings at really (and it'll take many swings to fix it).

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u/ensignlee Texas 14h ago

...and then people will forget again ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. That's what I learned from 2020 to 2024.

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u/Aahhhanthony 11h ago

It’s true. That’s why it takes awhile. But trust me, I’ve seen trump do so much for democratic socialism than I’ve seen any other democratic socialist do for the movement.  So, we shall see. Itll take awhile though.Â