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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by markus_zhang on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:21AM (#42063680)
I have always thought that it would be interesting to see an "Ordinary people party" that focuses on the silent majority, held by someone who never wants to be the president but loves to hold a percentage as a bargaining chip.
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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by umeshunni on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:51AM (#42065130)
> an "Ordinary people party"

Hate to break it to you, but that's the GOP at this point.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by techfeathers on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:26PM (#42071760)
Is it? You couldn't really know until you split out the parties. One odd thing I find with the GOP right now is there seem to be a lot of people voting with the hope they won't actually do the things they said they'd do.
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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by techfeathers on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:26PM (#42071771)
Is it? You couldn't really know until you split out the parties. One odd thing I find with the GOP right now is there seem to be a lot of people voting with the hope they won't actually do the things they said they'd do.

It feels like there are lots of people in the GOP who want to go a lot farther than "Ordinary people" do.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by maxehmookau on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:24AM (#42063723)
> I have always thought that it would be interesting to see an "Ordinary people party" that focuses on the silent majority

There is no silent majority. Turnout was >60% in 2020, so by that measure there's a silent minority at best.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by markus_zhang on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:32AM (#42063846)
Yeah, I was about to write "But looks like Trump kinda does that", but thought that could be a bit controversial so I didn't.
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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by odo1242 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:31PM (#42068885)
Silent as in public discussion, not votes, I think.
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