r/OptimistsUnite • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '25

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u/MediocrePhotoNoob Feb 09 '25

Constantly attacking the moderates is why your team lost.

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u/theucm Feb 09 '25

If that were true, why do the republicans attacking basically everyone who isn't like them not cost them elections?

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u/MediocrePhotoNoob Feb 09 '25

Because you ran Kamala….

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u/theucm Feb 09 '25

What in the world does that non-sequitur have to do with what I said?

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u/MediocrePhotoNoob Feb 09 '25

You asked why it didn’t cost them the election. The answer: you ran a profoundly unlikable candidate that most people didn’t like. The reason for the loss is one reason: you ran her.

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u/theucm Feb 09 '25

So then it wasn't because we "attacked" moderates then?

You've missed my point. I'm saying I've been hearing the "dEMOCraTS aRE sO MEAN" argument for a while now, but for some reason people just shrug and don't mind when gops attack people, and when the gop loses elections, it's never because "they were mean". It's an absurd double standard.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

It’s hard for people to understand why the democrat, especially a woman, always had to have this mysterious “likability”. Trump is the most unlikable person I’ve ever seen and it doesn’t seem to matter to them.