I Am Shattered but Ready to Fight

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I Am Shattered but Ready to Fight

The support for President Trump is a disgrace, but the future is not hopeless.

By Roxane Gay, Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times

Nov. 5, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/opinion/trump-supporters-election-2020.html#click=https://t.co/mu77AB9MZl

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Joe Biden appears poised to win the presidency, but his win will not be a landslide. And that’s fine. A win is a win and the margin of that win only sweetens the victory. Democrats can and should celebrate this win if it does, indeed, come to pass.

And still, many of us are disappointed, for good reason. Republicans are likely to maintain control of the Senate, which will make enacting progressive legislation nearly impossible. Odious politicians like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham were re-elected. Though Mr. Biden will probably win more votes than any previous presidential candidate, that President Trump was a contender at all is a disgrace. That Mr. Trump has received nearly 70 million votes is a disgrace. And it says a lot about this country that too many people refuse to face.

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Some Trump voters are proud about their political affiliation. They attend his rallies. They drive around with their cars draped in Trump posters and flags and other paraphernalia. They proudly crow about America and pride and nationalism. They are the subjects of fawning profiles that aim to explain their voting tendencies as the result of “economic anxiety,” as if they are tragically misunderstood. They aren’t. We know exactly who they are.

And then there are the other Trump supporters, the ones who are ashamed. The ones who want to seem urbane. The ones who want to be invited to all the good parties. They lie to pollsters. They lie to family and friends. And when they fill out their ballots, they finally tell the truth. That is their right. We live in a democracy, or at least we say we do.

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[spooky3]

1. Hillary Clinton was right about deplorables

As she was about nearly everything else.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Yup, we totally underestimated how "deplorable" they actually were!

[Midnightwalk]

2. Landslide isn't what we wanted

We wanted an absolute repudiation and that’s what didn’t happen.

We don’t know what the electoral college margin is in the presidential race yet.

If the counts hold we flipped enough states to say landslide and that’s what we should call it.

[Thekaspervote]

4. We don't know what it might have been had it been a fair election. 27% of SO FL votes lost

And thousands more nation wide. Wide spread cheating, voter suppression, Gerry meandered districts, it’s a wonder we won at all! Look at the gop response, total shock. they all thought they had done enough so they would win

It’s really not fair to preface it that way