Elijah Manley was still a teenager when his frustration with President Trump pushed him to get involved in politics. Today, he’s finally old enough to run for Congress. Upset with how his own Democratic Party is responding to Trump, he’s decided to do just that.

  • redwattlebird
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    6 hours ago

    As a non American, I keep seeing this excuse and I’m always gobsmacked.

    Bad candidate compared to… Trump?

    You lot sure know how to pick them (or not, as it were).

    • nomorecids454@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 hours ago

      “As a noN amEricAn” last year i had to sit with my wife as she called her windowed friend in Lebannon.

      She was a fucking genocider and if you would have voted for her You’re a piece of shit

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      6 hours ago

      As another non-American, comparing her to Trump is very reductive, because fundamentally she and Trump were trying to appeal to completely different sets of people. Yeah yeah lesser evil and all that, but that doesn’t work in the real world.