LostInCalifornia on Nostr: The exaggerations and falsehoods serve a strategic purpose. While Trump won a clean ...

The exaggerations and falsehoods serve a strategic purpose. While Trump won a clean victory in November, including in the popular vote, which he lost in 2016, he did not win a majority and his 1.5-percentage-point margin was one of the lowest since the 19th century. But he regularly says that he won a “landslide victory,” which serves not just to stroke his ego but to assert an expansive popular mandate for his agenda.

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