No, there was really no chance. Right wing pundits controls social media and every mainstream source only ever responds to Fox News instead of ever countering them.
In 2022 there were 161 million registered voters, trump got (currently) 74m votes, so 87m registered voters (more if you assume the 2024 registered number is higher) did not vote for him. Currently 70m voted for Kamala. So with current numbers 17m voted 3rd party or did not vote. If 5 of those 17m voted for Kamala she might have still lost the electoral vote, depending on where those voters live, but she would have the popular vote. Part of the Republican propaganda is also to make you feel like democracy is useless and sit home, passively let them take power. Every single vote very much matters.
They’re more than partly to blame for sure, Fox News and the like is the only reason the Republican Party is where it is, but there’s personal accountability too when that information was prevalent even in conservative media and extremely accessible. Some people are painfully unaware of everything going on around them, no matter how many ways you try to tell them
That's kind of the stick though - people celebrate being misinformed or uneducated (fear or mistrust of intellectualism), they only get information from "trusted" sources that tell them what they already know is true, and don't talk to anyone outside of their bubble.
Why would someone who brags about not reading a book since the age of 15 voluntarily look up information that challenges their worldview?
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u/Turisan Nov 09 '24
No, there was really no chance. Right wing pundits controls social media and every mainstream source only ever responds to Fox News instead of ever countering them.