#2016 election

[irenespring]

Really I think nothing shouts "my first Presidential election as a politically active person was 2016" more than the fact that when I feel hope and excitement for the future (possible President Harris) for more than five minutes I immediately get a crushing, all-consuming anxiety of "feeling this positive emotion now is going to make it so much worse when the worst thing possible happens" to the extent that I'll probably need my break-glass-in-case-of-emergency anxiety medication.

[batboyblog]

idk, feels like it should be slightly bigger news that a shady dictatorship with a crappy human rights record tried to illegally give Trump $10 million dollars to help win the 2016 election and then the Trump controlled Justice department stopped that from being fully investigated, that seems like a big fucking deal, but what do I know?

[lithiumseven]

I think actually one of the wildest parts of November 5th 2020 (if any can be narrowed down) was when you would very occasionally see an entirely unrelated post. Like somehow there were some people blogging about just normal shit that night and it was like standing in a costumed rave that was on fire and then just seeing one person completely calm checking emails. And all you could think was How can you not be seeing this???

[alwaysbewoke]

[ethereal-occultist]

Watching an old David Tennant interview from 2016 where he told the US to “please do the right thing… the rest of the world is really scared” and I’m realizing we did not do the right thing and tomorrow is history repeating itself with the opportunity to do the wrong thing once again

[deadpresidents]

has there ever been any confirmation about who the bushes voted for in 2016 between trump and hillary?

As far as I'm aware, neither of the two Bush Presidents ever publicly addressed who they cast their ballots for in 2016. But in Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's 2020 book, The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) -- an excellent biography of the former Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary, White House Chief of Staff, and longtime best friend of George H.W. Bush (Baker was at Bush's bedside in Houston when the former President died in 2018) -- they mention that Bush 41 voted for Hillary Clinton, former First Lady Barbara Bush wrote in the name of Jeb Bush, and Bush 43 voted for "none of the above."

[shyjusticewarrior]

"This country would never vote for a women-"

Motherfucker it already did!

[wincest-in-the-corner]

its so funny to me that Hillary canonically won the 2016 election

[nuninho2000]

You know what surprises me the most ? Is not the fact Donald Trump won the elections but the fact he won in the popular vote .

I mean , in 2016 when he won the elections he didn't win the popular vote but got elected thanks to the electoral voting system but in this year's elections he won in both .

[honey-bri-books]

A reminder that Casey being upset with Trump winning the election in 2016 is what inspired the book, in the first place. Red, White & Royal Blue is what we needed to get through his first term. Please be safe during his second term and remember that you matter. Women do not belong to men. Trans people exist. Queer people exist. Gay people exist. And ALL are allowed to exist. Stay strong. Be brave. We can get through it again.

[originalleftist]

This election feels like it has become a second chance, in more ways than one.

In 2016, we had a battle between the "old guard" of the Democratic Party and the progressive wing, and though the old guard won the primary, the divisiveness and bitterness of it, sometimes spilling over into open bigotry, nearly torn the party apart (I also think there is exactly zero to be gained from trying to rehash which side was more to blame for that, and will delete any comments doing so).

Then after Clinton became the nominee, we had a chance to elect the first female President. Instead, we lost to Donald Trump, and our country plunged into this ongoing existential threat.

Going back further, in 1968 a Democratic incumbent facing backlash from progressives against an overseas war dropped out, and instead of uniting behind an alternative, the party faced a divisive primary, riots at the convention (also held in Chicago, no less), and a loss in November to Richard Nixon.

Now, we have the Democratic incumbent dropping out ahead of the primary in Chicago- but the party has swiftly united around a strong alternative.

We had big donors and party insiders try to push Biden out, toss the primary results completely, and hold a "mini-primary" of insiders to pick a presumably corporate-friendly nominee- but instead all major wings of the party have swiftly united around a new nominee with a progressive voting record in the Senate to rival Sentors Sanders'.

Now, we again have a woman running for President against Donald Trump once again. And it remains to be seen if history will repeat... or if we will get it right this time.

So many people were dreading a rematch between Biden and Trump. But it seems that instead, Biden's withdrawal and Harris's extraordinarily strong campaign have given us a rare and precious chance to, in a sense, "rerun" some of America's (and the Democratic Party's) greatest failures.

Let's get it right this time.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

This is why Gen X and Boomers can't retire.

[batboyblog]

I'm thinking about this tweet today.

[proudace]

In 2016, my 8th grade social studies teacher made us watch the presidential debates. Now I don’t remember a single thing about those debates, besides the fact that he turned to my class, gleeful smile on his face, pointed up at the tv screen, and said “this is history in the making”

That fruity tall as fuck straight man had no idea how right he would be for the next 8 years

[ethereal-occultist]

I’m so scared. I remember being 17, coming downstairs and my mom and sisters were watching Fox News coverage of the election results, and I started arguing with them about it. My friend invited me over so I ended up watching are his house, and were both so upset when Trump won. I went home and cried. All of my family was happy about the results, aside from me. I really need this not to happen again