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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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I think it was obviously insane from the start. It was clear long before 2024, before 2020 even. Offering a racist a ham sandwich isn't going to get him to vote for you when the alternative is offering him the whole pig. Campaigning that way and losing once looks like an accident. Doing it... however the fuck many times we've seen this play out now looks like it's on purpose.
Not every conservative is a racist and it isn't helpful to frame things that way. It's not unreasonable to prefer a ham sandwich to a diseased pig, and it's not unreasonable to think that's a compelling offer.
They're either racists or willing to support and vote for racists. Not sure where you think that line of reasoning is gonna go.
The gamble was that enough of them wouldn't support racists if given a moderate alternative. Just because it didn't work didn't mean it wasn't a reasonable strategy.