• _stranger_@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      10 hours ago

      His cabal of gamification experts discovered that the flaw in the Electoral college system could be exploited IF they could find a common denominator for all the low population areas with disproportionately high representation in the EC. Turns out it’s hate. Who’d have thought.

      • Thrashy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        8 hours ago

        That’s a strategy as old as Reconstruction, utilizing an antidemocratic compromise baked into the Constitution by slavers who didn’t want the anti-slavery popular vote to have the power to take away their chattel. The brain trust behind Trump’s win aren’t especially clever. They’re just the latest schmucks to be soulless and hollow enough to fully embrace that hate-filled lowest common denominator, half a century after the last bunch finally got pushed out of power.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      10 hours ago

      In 2016, I’d have argued he isn’t.

      But now, after what we’ve seen out of America since, he is absolutely representative of who we are at our core in this country. Just wait until the supply chain breaks down from tariffs and people start to see empty shelves. You’re REALLY going to see who the American people are then.