https://x.com/auroragberry/status/1847338731876778131
The board of trustees are thought to be meeting in a nearby building. Nearly 200 protesters are gathered on the lawn. Demonstrators are calling for the university to divest from weapons manufacturers.
It’s been like this forever in the US. You win by getting your side to show up. Democrats outnumber republicans nearly 2 to 1. Republicans know this so they use voter suppression antics. Trump won in 2016 because his supporters were energetic. They do not want mail-in ballots to become universal because they’d never win another election. Democrats knew this in 2008 but seem to have forgotten since.
It’s the nature of the US election system that causes this where the side that wins is the side who had an easier time voting.
That used to be true but I don’t know if it is anymore. The coalition has shattered. Democrats became neocons and scooped up the “moderate Republicans” but lost all of their leftwing and all progressives. They’ve lost immigrants. They’re losing the trade unionists. They’re losing hispanics and blacks. They’re losing the youth vote. It’s all slipping away from them, the so called inevitable demographic takeover is shrinking backwards faster than it is advancing as Democrats slide to the right and aim all their appeal towards financially secure boomers. There’s a real possibility and certain electoral paths where Trump wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college, something unthinkable before 2016.
Yeah exactly and I think the republicans have done a lot to make it harder for Dems to vote + Trumps base is more energised