What I suggest they should have done? I think I was pretty clear on that. Everytime Trump spouts his bullshit, throw some reality back in his face instead of letting all his gutter trash insults and lies slide as if it's nothing.
Now the clown still got 74 million votes because all these Qtards think that "where there's smoke there is fire". Trump even got 10 million more votes than in 2016 and we all saw what his Qtards did at the capitol. THAT'S what you get for letting all that crap go unchecked.
What exactly are you looking for here? A pat on the back for the Democrats amazing achievement? The best presidential candidates they could come up with the last 2 elections were Hilary "welfare for oil contracts" Clinton and Joe "is it time for my afternoon nap already" Biden.
It's a pretty pathetic display if a rude orange baboon, devoid of all decency and morals, barely gets 7% less votes than your prime candidate if you ask me.
I guess I gave you too much credit for having an actionable idea of "what they should have done".
"Everytime Trump spouts his bullshit, throw some reality back in his face instead of letting all his gutter trash insults and lies slide as if it's nothing."
First, who are they? How much fact checking and rebuttals to lies do you want? Mainstream media documented 35,000 lies by Trump, they published what he said and what the facts were. I guess we could have wrapped those reports around rocks and thrown them at Trump but otherwise, Trump's support was immune to anything said by people outside of their tribe. Good thing that 80 million people did not believe all of Trump's lies. So, maybe that fact checking had an effect after all.
Second, do you think that it was all simply one-sided? Democrats opposed Trump using every legal lever available to them. What we saw in the past four years was what happens when the followers of authoritarian right leader controls the Presidency and the Senate. That's the way the Constitution was written and we aren't about to change it any time soon. So we are at a point where the next election Republicans win could very well be the last.
We can dispense with the "Republican vs Democrat" labels. With the Trumplican Party, the divide in this society is between democratic supporters vs right wing authoritarian followers. Note that I am not discussing leadership but the people who line up behind those leaders. We've already seen authoritarian behavior. They have no core principles, all they have is their need to dominate. We saw the tactics they employ. They lie, horse- trade, bribe, double cross, rape, menace, kill, torture, blackmail, withhold medicine, selectively pardon loyalists, attempt at taking hostages and attempt insurrection. Pro-democracy tactics are constrained to follow the rule of law. They use less coercive means such as discussion, investigations, transparent government practices and legal precedent. It's not a very long list. Clearly the crooks have an advantage in the short term. But in the long term, they seem to be losing. A movement that decides its best chances of winning an election requires they suppress votes and menace the opposition is practically admitting that they can't rule in a universal democracy.
So, again, I have no idea what you are suggesting we do. Picking up their poo and throwing it back at them went out of fashion many millions of years ago.
