• DrDeadCrash@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    In 2008 Americans elected a black man president, and the Republicans lost their shit and went scorched earth.

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      5 months ago

      They lost their shit decades before that. I have no idea why people seem to remember a formerly rational Republican party. I think people were just younger and have a rosy recollection of politicians who served before we formed a coherent political worldview.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      TBF, they lost their collective minds over the Clintons, too. Bill was largely a right-leaning centrist but Hillary has a tendency to speak her mind (shock! horror! she’s not some decorative arm piece? Who the hell does she think she is, anyway?) Also, some people were proclaiming him to be the “first black President” and that alone probably drove them crazier.