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Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)'s avatar

Good analysis. Agreed on most all of your points though I'd put it closer to 50/50 right now and things can still change. If Dems are smart they need to keep a lock down on the Woke antics and call out and condemn any excesses. Woke shit was a gift to the GOP and their whole platform is essentially being anti woke, so if they don't have that and also no longer have old senile Joe to compare to, they're going to be at a loss for how to frame themselves.

Also most of the normie public and especially women actually have no exposure to or awareness of the incel adjacent aspects of the online right, and if they become aware bc of talking points based on Kamala's sex life 30 years ago, it's not going to go over well. Young psycho wokistas putting their pathos on full display to the public since 2020 was a huge boon to the right. If the pathos and woman issues of the right goes on display in a similar manner, they're toast.

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I agree on the conclusion but not on many items in your analysis. Crime - you haven't been in Chicago lately. I am afraid of staying in the south part of the Loop area past 6pm. It is as bad as it gets. Check the Russian industrial output numbers, especially steel, these do not agree with what you are saying. Inflation: try buying a house, or getting CRE insurance. Trump is an empty windbag, Kamala is the same. The race is neck to neck simply because both candidates are downright mediocre.

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