We got our asses kicked and all I see are excuses.

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82. Yes and no.

Trump did a lot of talking about policy. Granted, details were very scant, or absent altogether, but he did.
For example, promising mass deportation. Promising to punish companies that move outside of the US. Pardoning Jan6 convicts. Etc.
I don't believe he ever came up with anything I could even partially agree with, but he did it nonetheless, and he did it non-stop. He made those things the loudest and the most prominent.
In my own way, I just see things a lot differently. I think I'm just a little more old school than most at this stage. My expectations of others are sometimes unobtainable, and I realize that. Everyone has a well-earned right to be pissed off, especially now. Heck, I'm one of them.
I can only apply the logic that is relevant in my own life, the things I witness and experience. That is a lot different as we look in other cultural cells around our country. I only see others from a distance, so I know my application of civility or acceptable is different in other people, but it's the only information I have to work with. I do not accept popular caricatures of others, it is more often than not very wrong.
And yes, I agree with you on most of that. Trump has nothing good to say about our party, he trashes it constantly with BS. But in my reality, when two drunken jerks are fighting in a bar parking lot, the crowd sees both of them as drunken jerks. The only way to gain advantage is to not act like the drunken jerk. Sure, you may still get your arse kicked in the moment, but the long game is far more important and consequential. Even on the internet, I do my level best to stay true to my personal convictions, even when it costs me.