Ya know what bugs me about the claim that it was all about the economy?

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44. No, it WASN'T about the economy. And IMO, saying so just

normalizes and rationalizes MAGA bullshit.

Except for the price gouging some corporations admitted to, the economy was (according to those in the field) strong.

ESPECIALLY given the fact that 400 ECONOMISTS, including 23 Nobel Prize winning economists, said Kamala's plan was FAR superior to Trump's and that Trump's will COST the middle class... big time.

So that 'economy' argument is bullshit. It was about exactly the same thing it was about in 2016.

It was about misogynistic men apparently threatened by women like Kamala, Michelle, and any strong minded, independently thinking woman

It was about women seeking autonomy over their own bodies and men like Trump who think women need "protection" from themselves.

It was about the "criminal and rapist" immigrants who are "poisoning the blood" of America... who are from "shithole countries" and who are "eating the cats and the dogs"... whether they're illegal or LEGAL.

It was about re-establishing the names of confederates to national institutions, and the embrace of that kind of ideology.

It was about voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

It was about "every city in America turning into Detroit" (a city with a sizable Black population (in case you missed the reference), the Central Park 5, the racist demeaning of a Black woman candidate (with the usual tropes reserved for people who trump reportedly considers "inherently lazy" )

and about sell-out sycophants like Donalds who was trotted out at Madison Square Garden to the tune of Dixie, no less, and who (according to Trump) was "ONE of the smart ones."

It was about HATE, racism, bigotry, a victim-hood mentality, and a sore-loser mindset out for revenge and "owning the libs."

So.......Don't ever give that kind of s----- more credit than it is due.