Muslim Americans voted overwhelmingly for Biden. But community leaders in swing states tell NBC News that the president's handling of the war in Gaza risks losing their support.
They send different signals. If Trump wins 55% of the vote, and Biden wins 45% of the vote, Democrats realize they need to compromise on contentious issues (maybe ban abortions federally or let insane people buy more guns etc.)
If Trump wins 46% of the vote, Biden wins 42% of the vote, and a super-left party wins 12% of the vote, Democrats realize they need to comrpomise less on contentious issues and become more radical to capture that 12%, while not scaring off the 42% of the vote they have. That 42% probably isn’t in favor of genociding Palestinians for example, so that’s something Democrats could concede to the far-left to just gain votes.
I get the arguments that for that 4 year period fascists won because of the split between Democrats and actual leftists, but to pretend that the two situations I outlined are literally identical is obviously foolish as hell.
Doesn’t matter if you think Biden “sucks” or not.
In the US 2-party system where the winner takes all, if you vote for a third party, you may as well vote for Trump.
They send different signals. If Trump wins 55% of the vote, and Biden wins 45% of the vote, Democrats realize they need to compromise on contentious issues (maybe ban abortions federally or let insane people buy more guns etc.)
If Trump wins 46% of the vote, Biden wins 42% of the vote, and a super-left party wins 12% of the vote, Democrats realize they need to comrpomise less on contentious issues and become more radical to capture that 12%, while not scaring off the 42% of the vote they have. That 42% probably isn’t in favor of genociding Palestinians for example, so that’s something Democrats could concede to the far-left to just gain votes.
I get the arguments that for that 4 year period fascists won because of the split between Democrats and actual leftists, but to pretend that the two situations I outlined are literally identical is obviously foolish as hell.