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Please don't elect Temu Trump (Pierre Poilievre) or Trump's useful idiot Doug Ford.

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[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Look, I agree with all of that.

But you cannot argue that identity politics were a factor in 2024. It explicitly wasn't.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I can't. However, if we'd had a real primary it almost certainly wouldn't have been Harris that won it, she did so horribly the previous time around.

She was VP because candidates usually pick a VP that they perceive as being strong where they are weak, and a young biracial BIPOC woman is what Biden saw as shoring up his weak spot of being an ancient and utterly milquetoast white guy who only got the spot because he had already been VP, and was VP in turn because Obama specifically wanted a boring milquetoast white dude to help balance perceptions of him.