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Uncle Joe

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5. Pent up demand for change from the long time status quo of an ever shrinking middle class
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 09:50 PM
Aug 7

The thing that gets me is that *rump was a corrupt, oligarch in populist clothing, but too much of the corporate media played along with that fiction because they knew he was siphoning votes from Bernie in this regard and their oligarch/corporate conglomerate owners were too afraid of a legitimate populist dedicated to serious reform which of course would cost them money in higher taxes not to mention Medicare for All and such. The first goal was in keeping Bernie from ever becoming the nominee, and *rump playing along with his WWE strategy labeled all critical news sources as being the "fake news."

*rump was also successful in scapegoating immigrants or the other as the source of the problem instead of addressing long time dysfunctional American policies enhancing the power of the less than 1% at the expense of everyone else.

Of course he also ran a highly successful campaign of projection, aggressively promoting opening the Epstein files and exposing a nefarious cabal of wealthy powerful sex traffickers and pedophiles covered up by the Democrats.

All of this was highly effective with low information voters and/or people dedicated to the idea that FOX "News" had any integrity.

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