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judeling

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5. They all play the victim (at times)
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 11:08 AM
Jan 2020

None of them use it like Trump, but all of our candidates, heck all of us use it.
But like everything else woman have to use it differently then men.

There is nothing wrong with using victimhood. It can be an important bonding point to make bigger issues tangible. Actually there is probably a measure of victimhood or at least the amount that candidates connect with the shared victimhood of their supporters. That is depth of support. Nobody can deny that Trump has extraordinary depth of support, as does Bernie. Sanders ran a whole campaign as a victim of the system. I know we all think it was policy and ideas and that was true at the topline, but the devotion is a factor of shared victimhood. Sanders unlike Trump has moved way beyond it.

But in the current crop Klobuchar probably uses it best.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided

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