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Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’
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Speaking of the Democrats setting themselves up for failure, if the Gaza ceasefire holds Trump will take care for it and Michigan will likely be solid red for at least a generation, not unlike Florida after Obama improved relations with Cuba.
Maybe that will happen. But I think it’s far more likely that Trump will end the genocide by letting Netanyahu finish it. And I don’t really see his administration doing anything other than alienating American Muslims, since he’s certainly not going to protect them from his followers. He’ll probably egg them on.
That said, Biden could have at least pretended to care about Gaza, and didn’t, so a lot of Michigan voters are pretty fed up with the Democrats, and maybe they’ll throw their support wholeheartedly behind the Republicans. I don’t see how that will get them anything they want, but they wouldn’t be the first, and they won’t be the last, group of voters who steadfastly vote against their own self interest.
I think we're at or close to the point where people just don't want another fucking corporate neoliberal in charge, and most of them don't have enough to lose to justify holding their nose to vote for more of the same. Unless the DNC does something different I expect it's just going to go to the Republicans for the foreseeable future.
Trump has so many problems. But he can at least claim he's going to be something different, which Harris and Clinton did not.
Unlike last time, Democrats aren't going to be able to credibly pretend that they have American Muslims' backs.
That’s true. But the Republicans certainly won’t either. The Democrats haven’t earned American Muslims’ trust, but to run into the arms of the party that loudly and constantly demonizes Muslims at every opportunity as a result makes no sense.
I would understand a lot of people in Michigan disengaging from politics (although that would probably objectively make their lives worse in the long run). I can’t see them supporting Republicans though.
Over the past year or so, they've gone out of their way to earn Muslims' distrust.
I'm referring to this. Trump surprisingly had a lot with this most recent ceasefire, and even if he didn't he'd take credit for it. I don't see him forging good relations with American Muslims, but in the future I think we'll see the GOP campaigning based on the (real or otherwise) accomplishment of bringing peace to Gaza. And when the alternative is the DNC... Yeah.
That seems kinda unrealistic, no?
Roughly 50,000 (perhaps upwards of 70k) Palestinians have been killed in a little over a year, and if anything, the rate is slowing. The population of Gaza and the West Bank sums to about 5,000,000. The growth rate in 2022 was conservatively 1.75%. That amounts to 87,500 new people every year.
Even when you factor in Israel targeting hospitals and food to try to hurry the genocide along, it'd still take decades, if ever.
Counting deaths alone in Gaza and the West Bank ignores all the Palestinian refugees that have been forced to leave Palestine altogether; in either case, Israel wants to settle the rest of Palestine to cement their claim to it and control over it.
Ahh good point, it looks to be more of a 6% reduction in population if you include the 100k+ who've left.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/16/israel-hamas-ceasefire-whats-left-of-gaza-and-its-people
I'm certainly not denying that Israel's intent is to settle Palestine. Just that they even have the capability to do so within the next 4 years.
Just gonna say that the numbers you're using are direct casualties. When you include indirect casualties, such as the people who died to famine or disease due to conditions caused by the war you get numbers upward of 200k.
To think that trump orchestrated or built that ceasefire is complete bullshit
Y’all give those arabs too much credit in Michigan
Americans do think foreign politics are controlled completely by the American president.
When in reality, the president can only do as he pleases when there's a genocide to outfit.