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Comment by pindab0ter | Hacker News Reader

What is this "this" you're referring to? Was this on the ballot? Did Trump announce that he would do this?

It seems very easy to just blame this on the voter like this.

This = this person is clearly morally corrupt, displaying a pattern of behaviour over decades of being untrustworthy, a liar, and taking advantage for personal gains.

People decided to elect that person, it's part of the package.

I'm Canadian and I can tell you this was always part of Project 2025, which was extremely obviously the plan all along.

So I don't know. Assuming the American voter can read and and access to the internet, it's kind of pathetic to imply they couldn't have known

people in america have low political involvement after years of politicians ignoring their material needs. non-voters are the biggest group of voters. i think it’s by design.

64% us turnout. Canada 68%, UK 60%

America is not exceptional.

Jan 6th 2021 was on the ballot. You vote for Trump, or said “they’re as bad as each other”, you reap what you sow.

The contents of Project 2025 were well publicised, so yes, the voters are very much to blame (assuming that the vote wasn't gamed by Musk et al)

I mean, Trump was all but outright saying "I am going to be comically terrible"; the people voting for him presumably knew at least the broad strokes of what they'd be getting, if not the fine detail.

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