I think democrats are just cursed with winning the wrong Presidential elections
Winning 2012 led to Trump, winning 2020 led to Dems being blamed for the inflation crisis, and them winning 2028 would lead to them being in power when the social security crisis occurs
@alpatriot_17 People often overlook how good he actually was at foreign policy, but it also ended up being his doom once the world was relatively at peace with the fall of the USSR, and people wanted someone more focused on the homeland
@TheChadReinhard Pretty amazing how much the rubicon has shifted within the GOP in terms of immigration in the decade since Trumpism kicked off; it was seen as fringe at the time and now it’s pretty much considered mainline GOP policy
@egr578re@PanasonicDX4500 He did say that early in 2020 but he probably got cocky after 2022 saw Dems overperform and lots of people at the time still saw 2016 as a huge fluke
@hippo_politics Lots of name recognition and his family owns a ton of land in Oklahoma
Also there was probably a chunk of Dems who voted here since the GOP primaries are basically the only way their vote counts in states as red as OK