• ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    We’ll only in the same way Trump was self-inflicted, that is to say that millions of people didn’t vote for him and are still impacted by this.

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      11 months ago

      Didn’t he win the vote? Trump lost the vote. He won the election because the American system is designed to sometimes hand victory to the loser - Trump was the 5th or 6th example to date.

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        11 months ago

        He was voted on by 14.5 million votes, which was 56% of the votes, but it is also out of a population of 45 million, and he only got 30% in the first round of votes. They have a completely different voting system to the US, so they had a second round of runoffs.

        The point is, no most people in Argentina did not vote for him, but many did not vote at all.