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That's 50% of the electorate.
Not really, although they want you to believe that. In reality, over a third of registered voters abstained from voting in 2024.
More people didn't vote than voted for either candidate.
That was a vote for Trump.
I got bad news for you about that dumb ass third that wouldn’t turn out for democrats anymore than republicans. You’d likely get the same numbers. They didn’t vote for a reason. They either didn’t like either that much or they ate dumb as shit on a brick. The former may vote dem slightly more but the latter would be influenced in the election line by the dumb shits passing out flyers, and they are more often republicans from what I’ve seen.
People that checked out will not vote the way you fucking think.
The only way to get to them is to make them fucking uncomfortable. That’s it.
A lot of them are self-proclaimed leftists who have no practical sense of realpolitik, and are so focused on their purity tests that they'll never put forward a viable candidate.
A lot of them bought into the tiktok propaganda that Biden and Harris were responsible for Gaza, while ignoring how much worse it would get under trump. They simply (and rabidly) accused anyone who supported the Democrats of being complicit in genocide.
This time there's not an incumbent democrat, so hopefully the same people will blame the current administration and vote accordingly. That is, if the entire hype wasn't socially engineered by the US's adversaries to get trump elected so he could weaken the country...
A robust Democratic primary will also help reduce boycott voters, although some will likely always complain that the nominee isn't perfect enough for their liking. That can't be helped.
But at least some of the fence-sitting centrists will come out in force against trump, since it's so obvious how shitty everything is.
So I think there's still hope. As long as states maintain control of their own elections and keep them free and fair...
They voted for "whoever the other guys want."
50% of the electorate wouldn't be hurt by sanctions, or 50% of the electorate would be arrested?
In either case, I'm referring to the president, his staff and cabinet. People actually directly making decisions who won't see any consequences from sanctions.