• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Every presidential election in my lifetime has had a candidate that has been attacked as “the dumb one” and another that has been attacked as “the smart evil one” (note: the might not be this, but they were attacked as if they were this)

    The “dumb one” has won every time.

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      4 months ago

      I concur, except I didn’t get those vibes during Obama v Romney. Who was who then?

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        4 months ago

        There wasn’t a “dumb” one in that one. But there was massive hypocrisy from the GOP because Romney is the embodiment of the Elite, while they tirelessly touted Bush Jr as an everydayman (“dumb”) while villifying the Elite.

        This was just 4 years later.