If your side loses, will you blame the American electorate?

[ProgressiveModerate]

I see a lot of rhetoric from both the left and right along the lines of "Trump/Biden is only viable because half of America is stupid, brainwashed, and entitled".

If your candidate loses, will that confirm your negative view of the American public you think?

I think for me, I already have a negative view of large swaths of the American public and the outcome won't necessarily do that. I generally think we have a lot of people who make no effort to even try to be  a good, informed citizen and play contrarian just for the heck of it. I also think too many Americans don't realize just how lucky we are to have this system and be this wealthy as a Country - these people complaining about how life sucks because they're a broke worker yet they just came back from a 2 week vacation to Jamaica and went to dinner at a fancy restaurant yesterday really annoy me.

I have quite a negative view of my own age cohort too - regardless of our politics I find us to be quite illiberal and entitled. Gucci bags and daily Starbucks are not a right. I blame a lot of that on social media, but also young people around me blindly giving hours of their time to social media and just seeing everything they believe.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Biden isn't losing it's VBM and they said be patient in PA especially because the VBM  counting takes a long time


These pollsters have nothing better to do but keep poll the Prez race

We are expanding the map to TX and FL Allred, Tester, Brown, Osbourne and Powell all have competition

[Progressive Pessimist]

Honestly, yes. 2016 clearly wasn't enough of a harsh lesson, especially since the Biden campaign looks to be doing everything it can to run the best campaign possible and not fall into the same traps Clinton's campaign did.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

We are up in AZ that tells you alot about Latinos in TX and FL, my cuz lives in TX and he said it's a battleground

IL, is a Latino state, so is NY and NJ and CALIFORNIA and CO and  NM we should not forget IL, NY and NJ and CA are all safe Latinx Biden states

[SnowLabrador]

Absolutely.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Biden isn't losing

[Obama24]

Not really either way, no. It's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.

[TechbroMBA]

Seems like Atlas has a lot of seething grad students.

[Rand]

I will blame Canada. They’re not even a real country, anyway.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I will blame Canada. They’re not even a real country, anyway.

Atlas posters after Trudeau rigs the election to try to improve his chances in 2025:

[Mr. Smith]

Yes. I'll blame them if they/we win too. It's a pyrrhic victory most of the time anyway

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

What's cool is I've accepted Trump is going to win. I'll have enough booze and pot to survive this until I'm taken to some sort of work camp

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Trump isn't going to win blue states

[seskoog]

If Biden loses, I’ll blame his campaign for catering too much to the far left

[TechbroMBA]

If Biden loses, I’ll blame his campaign for catering too much to the far left

Less so the far left, than the smug Twitter left.

I don’t think Trump is a fascist, but if he turned out to be one I’d at least get to see Jeff Tiedrich get waterboarded.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I see a lot of rhetoric from both the left and right along the lines of "Trump/Biden is only viable because half of America is stupid, brainwashed, and entitled".

If your candidate loses, will that confirm your negative view of the American public you think?

If Biden actually, straight-up loses? Yes. If the GOP steals the election by fraud or force (the way they tried last time) that's a different and more complex matter.

[wnwnwn]

Yes?
They will vote for it
I won´t

[HisGrace]

Trump isn't going to win blue states

olawakandi is a genius

[HisGrace]

Well Trump and Biden are viable because both sides are so bad someone might vote for either one of them.

If Trump wins I would blame the electorate but not for the usual reasons. It would be Republicans fault for being brainwashed enough to nominate him a third time and the far left's fault for being so awful that people will vote for Trump to stick it to them.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Honestly, yes. 2016 clearly wasn't enough of a harsh lesson, especially since the Biden campaign looks to be doing everything it can to run the best campaign possible and not fall into the same traps Clinton's campaign did.

I can’t deny the Clinton campaign made mistakes, but let’s be real here: The choice in 2016 was abundantly clear. I think it’s easier to blame the electorate for 2016, because Hillary was very clearly at least capable enough to be president. Can you blame the electorate in 2024 when Biden had every opportunity to bow out?

[heatcharger]

What's cool is I've accepted Trump is going to win. I'll have enough booze and pot to survive this until I'm taken to some sort of work camp

Bush Democrats fantasizing about getting waterboarded? Well well well…

[DS0816]

Re: If your side loses, will you blame the American electorate?

No person—and no political party—is entitled to the presidency of the United States.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Honestly, yes. 2016 clearly wasn't enough of a harsh lesson, especially since the Biden campaign looks to be doing everything it can to run the best campaign possible and not fall into the same traps Clinton's campaign did.

I can’t deny the Clinton campaign made mistakes, but let’s be real here: The choice in 2016 was abundantly clear. I think it’s easier to blame the electorate for 2016, because Hillary was very clearly at least capable enough to be president. Can you blame the electorate in 2024 when Biden had every opportunity to bow out?

I blame the electorate of 2016 too.

 I lost a lot of faith in the sanity and sensibilities of my fellow American, and that will remain true this year with Biden as well, if Americans...well, really the electoral college, chooses him after his disastrous four years, the dustegard for democracy, the indictments and trials, his personality and so on, all compounded from the litany if things that should have been blatantly disqualifying in 2016.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

My side already has lost, both are awful

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Re: If your side loses, will you blame the American electorate?

No person—and no political party—is entitled to the presidency of the United States.

Biden intends on winning and so do Ds