Explaining the election result is simple: people picked comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths.
Let me guess, Biden and his Democrats were the “truths”?
Yes. These truths are things like the economy is improving but will take time, prices will never go back to what they were before Covid, man-made climate change is a real existential threat to human civilization, legalizing abortion results in fewer deaths than banning it, trans people exist, and institutional racism exists.
Some of the comfortable lies are that tariffs will fix everything, fuel prices will drop if we drill more, wars in Ukraine and Palestine can be easily ended with simple negotiation, and Project 2025 isn’t the working plan for the Trump presidency.
If it’s something negative towards liberals or democrats, it won’t get much traction in these parts…
