• @Maggoty
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    161 month ago

    Even if she made every right choice, the Republicans had been smearing her name for 24 years before she ran for president. Her attempt to simultaneously be elected most entitled person certainly didn’t help. But I think that’s why we nominated Biden in 2020. The watch word was electability because we all saw what decades of FUD did to Hillary.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      31 month ago

      It’s hard to separate cause and effect there. Was she unliked because of the FUD or did the FUD stick because she was unliked?

      It was a close election so it was a perfect storm of a bunch of things lining up all at once. Given how close it was, if the FUD did cause the outcome, avoiding some of those errors might have been enough to win.