Younger men threw their support behind Donald Trump in 2024 after favoring Biden in 2020

The United States is still not ready for a female president after more than a century of unsuccessful campaigns for the White House, according to former First Lady Michelle Obama.

“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said earlier this month in a live conversation with actor Tracee Ellis Ross that was published Friday.

“That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying,” she said. “You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time.”

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    They said that about a black president. So. No. I don’t agree. AOC is very popular.

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      Obama also hadn’t been nationally mocked, caricaturized, and vilified from the beginning of his political career. I’m far from a political historian, but I can’t think of any domestic political figure who has been so frequently and intensely criticized as AOC.

      I could maybe see it with a decisive blue wave in 2026, but then only if it feels like another one in 2028. That said, a lot of things can happen between now and then, morning is impossible.

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      14 hours ago

      They said that about a black president. So. No. I don’t agree.

      WTF…US Right wing went insane over Obama, now we have SS squads patroling the streets for people of color.

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      AOC is very popular.

      Among liberals.

      She won’t win a national election. Too many Americans don’t like her.

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      AOC is popular only in the northeast USA, like the others. She also politically untested. I agree with Michelle.

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        …Politically untested? The fuck? Where have you been?

        Besides, it’s not like the people are being elected are either tested or passed their tests by a reasonable amount anyway. It’s a weak excuse when it only seems to apply sometimes, just like everyone who said Bernie was too old a decade ago but who voted for Trump even though his mind was already fading then and was halfway gone this time around.

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          The fuck?

          She is a representative from one of the NY district. That’s quite a unique situation, most of America isn’t like that. AOC is an amazing, smart, young woman politician, with great ideas. This combained with her nationality, means more than half of the country hates her with passion.

          Bernie
          Bernie situation is exactly like that. He is too old, and people who would be voting for him if he was younger, wouldn’t. However people who voted for trump would vote for a wet pile of rags if they affirmed their prejudices. That’s a fundamental struggle of the american broadly speaking “left”, you need to be a platonic ideal of a best person ever to even be eligible, and you will still lose to a platonic ideal of evil seven times out of ten.

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            That’s seriously your response? That she’s from NY and that means she can’t possibly understand how anything else works? That dogshit country elected Donald Trump, a dude with the opposite of qualifications who also came from New York and who lives in a huge mansion/villa. AOC has actually had a real job. She’s had to work late shifts, she’s had unreliable income. The country might not look like New York City but it’s full of people who she understands and respects.

            Take your goofy opinion and take a hike.

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              “Oh yeah? If you think America will not vote for a young smart left leaning woman with credentials, then why did America elected an old stupid right wing white criminal man twice?”.
              Buddy, do you, like, have problems with all this “if a then b” stuff? Logic and all?

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                You’re trying to say that the reason she won’t be elected is [reason X] and I’m saying that despite [reason X] the US still elected Trump. Your argument is bad because you’ve already been proven wrong, and given the history of US politics you’ve been proven wrong hundreds of times.

                Your low level of literacy is not a problem with me.

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            AOC is an amazing, smart, young woman politician, with great ideas

            So let her run for Prime Minister of Canada. USA loves them pale, male and stale.