• AmidFuror@fedia.io
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      7 days ago

      If the people had rallied far more before the election, it could have convinced enough ignorant fence sitters. Now we have people reacting to damage already done when the next chance to fix it is two years away.

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        It would have been worse. Fox News would paint them as anarchists and encourage violence. Nothing would change on the right

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          Yeah, it would have just been feeding their infinitely expandable persecution fetish. The same goes for the legal cases against Trump. It was the right thing to do, but it just meant that Trump supporters dug in their heels even more.

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        If the people had rallied far more before the election, it could have convinced enough ignorant fence sitters.

        The exact same thing happened in 2016. Huge rallies a few days after Clinton lost. If those same street rallies had come a few days BEFORE the election, she probably would have won.

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          Of course, there is the distinct possibility that the rallies were happening before the election. The billionaire owned media just didn’t choose to show it until now.