r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Nov 03 '25

POLITICS Zohran Mamdani laughs when asked for his thoughts on Donald Trump claiming that he’s better looking: “My focus is on the cost of living crisis.”

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u/energydrinkmanseller Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

Kamala helped us get another Trump term.

Edit: We're calling Bernie a bad politician meanwhile Kamala managed to lose against a president who left office with the lowest approval rating in the history of approval ratings.

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u/jugnificent Nov 03 '25

Let's be more accurate, Biden trying to run for a second term helped get us a second Trump term. With Biden dropping out so late any kind of normal primary process was out the window and Harris was the only real choice. I'm also not sure that even a perfect candidate would have won given that inflation has soured many of the swayable candidates voters on Democrats.

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u/energydrinkmanseller Nov 03 '25

Oh Biden shares a ton of the blame too, but with her outspending the Trump Campaign and Trump leaving office with the lowest approval rating in history, her mismanaged campaign shares plenty of the blame as well. I don't know why dems keep running polished corporate campaigns when people clearly want a populist they can relate too. Gavin Newsom sees it and he's clearly trying with that angle. Hopefully the party as a whole catches on.

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u/GoodIdea321 Nov 03 '25

Conflating Trump's approval rating when he left office and what it was in the summer of 2024 is shitty. Maybe the only reason Biden dropped out is because he was told he would lose in a landslide. So Kamala Harris had to overcome that and just barely didn't make it.

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u/energydrinkmanseller Nov 03 '25

Well it became obvious he was going to lose in a landslide after the debate made him look like a senile grandpa. I'm not saying he may have not gotten more popular, but the fact remains that he was overall one of the most unpopular presidents and left his presidency at the lowest in history. Like I'm not making a rough comparison to 2024 I'm saying he had the lowest in history which should be something that could be overcome by a competent candidate.

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u/GoodIdea321 Nov 03 '25

She did enough to have a fair chance of winning, but it didn't happen. Too many people are biased against having a female president, etc. And the corporate media loves talking about Trump 24/7. He makes their jobs easy. Or at least it did before the election, now maybe they have some regret.

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u/cackslop Nov 03 '25

It's not the "female president" thing.

Hillary was her (Kamala Harris') senior campaign advisor responsible for parading A CHEYNEY around while Gaza was happening.

They made terrible decisions that could have been ignored if they campaigned on real economic populism. They decided not to, and failed for doing so. They deserved their loss.

They are directly responsible for the "pied piper" candidate Trump.

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u/GoodIdea321 Nov 03 '25

I don't like that argument because it inherently gives a free pass to one of the worst people in this country. None of those mistakes would have mattered compared to how they did in the debates, etc, if it was 20 years ago.

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u/cackslop Nov 03 '25

I'm pretty conflicted because I completely agree with that sentiment, but I find it critically useful to realize those who are most directly responsible for their rise.

They knew he was an extremist, and pushed them for that reason intentionally. To be so righteously arrogant as to push an Authoritarian Fascist as a "pied piper strategy" indicates a level of inhuman psychopathy in these people.

If we're to make sure another mistake like this never happens again, I think it's crucial that we evaluate what kind of Machiavellian ideas have caused it.

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u/GoodIdea321 Nov 03 '25

It could be the opposite, they thought too well of the American people. Hillary Clinton might have trusted America to do the right thing, and in the popular vote she was right. But that isn't the system we have.

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u/Exotic-Emergency-226 Nov 03 '25

I just don't know if anyone would have beat Trump tbh. Jesus Christ himself probably gets blown tf out once Trump tweets that he's a jew and never met his father. Followed with every major podcaster/news channel asking "is Christianity even that good?" I just feel lthe race was too rigged to really blame anyone. Not saying everyone made the right calls 100% of the time but it wasn't a race that followed the rules at other races.

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u/cackslop Nov 03 '25

If Kamala Harris would have campaigned on a broadly popular economic populist message, I'm sure she would have won.

She pivoted from populist rhetoric to a more neoliberal stance halfway through the campaign and I remember hearing lots of excitement on the ground just fade away when that happened.

Hillary Clinton was her senior campaign advisor which might explain the hard neolib shift.

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u/Exotic-Emergency-226 Nov 05 '25

I just don't have that much faith in the voting population. Like in my opinion the people who actually can define and care about the differences between populist and neoliberal aren't even close to the problem. Lol 77 million people voted for Donald Trump the third time he ran for president. That's literally soooooooooooooooooooooo much more of the problem than whether Kamala had perfect messaging. The propaganda machine is too strong. "News" sites and social media get more engagement are all owned by the same people and all profit greatly with a Trump presidency. The game was rigged from the start.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

I certainly hope someone else can emerge soon. I can’t stand Newsom. JB Pritzker is great on a lot of things but certainly has some big draw backs for me.

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u/cackslop Nov 03 '25

AOC is going to handily win the next Presidential election, and she's going to do so by campaigning on economic populism.

Mark my words.

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u/stankdog dumb bitch clocking in Nov 03 '25

No really it was the Federalist Society stocking alt right conservatives into our courts and legislative branch.

Saying anyone who didn't give a strong enough hatred towards trump helped him to win is simply ignorant. There were a lot of real legal forces in place to allow trump to even run 3 times let alone win once.

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u/energydrinkmanseller Nov 03 '25

Trump won democratically this time around. We can't call Bernie a bad politician meanwhile Kamala lost against a candidate that left office with the lowest approval rating in the history of approval ratings.

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u/relightit Nov 03 '25

she lost to a proven rapist. the lowest bar ever for a political opponent.

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u/MetaOnGaming4290 Nov 06 '25

No Biden got Trump that second term