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Etc. including Israel/Gaza. American politics being what it is, there's not a stance they could have taken that wouldn't have hurt them on one side or another. Which does suggest they might as well have been a lot braver on that issue than they were, of course. If you're going to lose, lose with some pride.
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I need to go back find where I heard it and double check the numbers, but one commentator I heard said that the Republicans won in spite of Trump.
Essentially; the economy, incumbency, backlash against institutions across the West, etc. meant the Dems were up for a fucking kicking. Had Nikki Haley been on the ticket the results would have been even worse for the Dems.
Idk if that's true, but it made me pause on my initial hot take of the decisiveness of the Trump win.