Lukewarm take about France:
French comrades can chime in and tell me if I’m right on this one or not.
If you know France, you know that many of them want fascism but not to be the ones who voted for it. They want fascism to be something that is “forced” upon them, or something that “happens” to their society.
A good number of people saw the polls with a far right landslide and thought: “looks like RN’s gonna win big, hey maybe I should vote for the other side to “balance things out” so we don’t all look like a country full of bloodthirsty RN supporters”
Guess what? When enough people thought the same, you end up tilting the results this way. This is how electoral upsets can happen: the polls influence their final decisions.
I swear the geniuses at the Biden campaign saw the debate and the only lesson they took from it is that Biden should behave more like Trump.
First they orangify Biden in TV appearance. Then they make him call in and say some elite nonsense as if he was some Trump-like anti-establishment figure lol.
It’s not that Biden browses Reddit, it’s his campaign staff who probably spent way too much time on Reddit and got all these brainwormed ideas from it.