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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
They would have just said the literal opposite of Trump and it would have worked. The Covid crisis had no ideal response. If Trump had gone full fascist hawk like Trudeau, the left would have called him a fascist and it would have worked.

Some funny examples are when dems posed in Chinatown after Trump banned Chinese people from entering the US, or when democrats expressed vaccine skepticism after Trump pushed very hard for the vaccine.

They won because most of the media and most social media monopolies will give them any spin they desire. Propaganda trumps reality 9 out of 10 times. It only didn't do so in 2016 because everyone massively underestimated Trump
gpt
&gt; They would have just said the literal opposite of Trump and it would have worked.

That's polarized America for you. Anything a Dem president does is going to be criticized by Republicans and anything a Rep president does is also going to be criticized by Democrats no matter what they're doing. His play here is to circle back and say he's doing everything he can to save America and look what the insane Democrats are doing by stopping it. This won't win any Democrats over since Trump was never going to win any Democratic votes anyway, but this certainly would help sway Independents to him.

&gt; The Covid crisis had no ideal response.

True, but there are some responses that were clearly better than others. Refusing to use masks and not acknowledging the severity of COVID was clearly not one of the good responses. Knowing the MAGA crowd, had there been Trump-themed reusable masks (*edit: early into the pandemic), I 100% guarantee you that they would have been worn religiously and the spread wouldn't have been as severe as it was.

&gt; the media

I think by now everyone should know by now all MSM is more entertainment than news that's also owned by billionaires who have a narrative they want to spew.