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The democrats have always had primaries some people ignore the fact they happened because they didn’t like the outcome.
How? How many primaries has Kamala Harris won?
The democrats ran a primary in 2024 which Biden won.
Biden stepped back and Harris was voted in by the delegates because at that point there wasn’t time for another proper primary.
Harris would have been a much better president than the guy who ended up winning.
Trump winning only means we're ratcheting to the right at a slightly faster pace.
You call what's happening "slightly faster"? And it's only been half a year...
Yes because even if Kamala would've won, even with a Democrat majority in congress, Republicans would've kept Republican'ing and Democrats have developed a habit of not doing anything to stop it because it wouldn't be civil or whatever the excuse of the week is.
In that case republicans would be able, at most, to block progress. Now you have secret police disappearing people in broad daylight, not to mention the open ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
That was happening under Biden too, they just weren't being as vocal about it. Also Roe v Wade was overturned when Biden was in office with a Democrat majority in Congress and they couldn't be bothered to do anything about it.
There was no open ethnic cleansing under Biden, or kidnappings of people off the street, or sucking up to Russia, or trade wars, or military control of cities, or CEOs gifting gold bars to the president, or...