The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault | Margaret Sullivan
www.theguardian.com
With democracy in the balance, the press must relay the crucial importance of this election and the dangers of a Trump win
    • @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      The problem isn’t the left deciding to vote for trump. It’s the left fracturing between multiple candidates from (D) and (I) while trump’s people are all on board with him. It’s the exact thing that happened in 2016.

      • vorticEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        The problem is that, even when Democrats win the popular vote, they still lose the election due to gerrymandering.

        • BombOmOmEnglish
          -1•1 year ago

          How does one gerrymander the presidential election? To gerrymander requires one redrawing borders to zone out candidates. Where is anybody redrawing state borders?

          This is embarrasing.

    • @yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I think the main problem for the Democrats are apathy and people not voting at all, rather than people actually voting for Trump. The Trump voters will be the same, but they will actually vote.

    • @joel_feila@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      They want change, but they do not want to change. Many have always dem or rep so they vote out of habbit again and again. They complain about things getting worse and people offering solutions are regected in favor of a ‘solution’ they understand.

    • @UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      They aren’t going to vote for Trump, they just aren’t going to vote for Biden, and they aren’t going to tell their friends to vote, and they aren’t going to get out the vote in their communities or drive people to the polls.

      Imagine a politically active person last election went to their mosque or temple and made sure that their elders had a ride to the polls and the young people got registered to vote and people understood the issues.

      Now imagine that she decides that she isn’t going to put in those efforts for a person that rubber stamps genocide and lies about how poor everyone she knows has gotten.

      Not one person in this story voted for Trump, but how many votes did Biden lose?

      You need to stop seeing this as a binary problem because that’s exactly why Democrats keep losing against weak unpopular candidates.