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Insane that this election (and the future of the republic) might end up being saved by one word said by one dude who wasn't even in the running at the time. And the word is simply, "weird."
After all of the insane shit we have seen and heard the GOP do and say, a generic white dude that looks like your dad calling them "weird" was what flipped the momentum in the Democrats' favor.
I just can't with this timeline
It makes sense. They want to be seen as evil. Evil is scary, it’s threatening, it’s a matter of perspective in some cases. Evil gets his base what they want even if it hurts others. Even stupid is something where they can tell themselves it’s a game of 4-d chess and the opponents just don’t see the coming victory.
But weird? It hits hard. It’s the one thing they don’t want to be because weird implies that they aren’t the majority or masterminds, but rather that they’re dismissible and not acting correctly. Weird is what they hate and so it hurts them to hear the truth that it’s what they are. Because normal people don’t fucking act like that. Normal people laugh at people acting like that, or show concern, or anything but joining in