• jeffw@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wild. The victim’s wife took the seat and held it until 2015. She won a write in campaign by a landslide after the murder. But still… some voted for a murderer instead of a Democrat?

    Weird how the article feels the need to say the murderer was a “Democrat turned Republican”. People change their registration? Look at Trump… do we call him “former Democrat”?

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      It’s a certain mentally that sometimes makes that change. Lyndon Larouche made the change and became a conspiracy theorist, as did Jordan Peterson.

      It’s an interesting path, but sometimes it’s expressive of someone who feels betrayed by Western Democratic Liberalism as a whole (aka society). That kind of person is often an outsider, and outsiders can do some strange and sometimes even dangerous things.

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        Whose reelection? The former democrat Donald Trump, who was determined by a judge to have committed rape and who cheated on his wife with a porn star?