Part of Bukele’s popularity is that he stopped a period of intense political conflict between FMLN and ARENA. He successfully presented himself as neither left nor right but a secret 3rd thing (right but young). No one predicted this in 2016 I worry that’s our future too

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The US has had unusually competitive elections going back and forth since 2008. neither side has won a decisive advantage. Does this mean they won’t? I don’t know! SA had competitive elections until the Afrikaner far right managed to gerrymander things for 40 years.

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Both sides have been convinced that the other is on the precipice of total victory forever since 2008 and therefore feel they need to play extra hardball. It’s odd that trump’s victory hasn’t helped much. Of course, the gop is on the cusp of forever victory so I’m right

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i feel like we all should know this by now because we already lived through it everyone knew we were gonna Do Something in Iran weeks beforehand because they had to move a ton of shit next to Iran, and that was just for a bombing campaign

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My favorite in this genre...

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