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minus-squarePLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down5·4 months agoThey may have had help: https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
minus-squarenomous@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·4 months agoThis is old news, that article is from 2016. No one here is going to defend her or her strategy that famously didn’t work and backfired spectacularly.
minus-squarePLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoSaying the article is old is like saying don’t bring up Reaganomics… the impacts are still being felt, there’s still relevance. And I linked it to suggest that these fringe candidates are still being picked and losing, perhaps as a long term effect of the strategy.
They may have had help:
https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
This is old news, that article is from 2016.
No one here is going to defend her or her strategy that famously didn’t work and backfired spectacularly.
Saying the article is old is like saying don’t bring up Reaganomics… the impacts are still being felt, there’s still relevance.
And I linked it to suggest that these fringe candidates are still being picked and losing, perhaps as a long term effect of the strategy.