Fox News caption: BY WINNING, DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY LOSING
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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He’s saying “good, let them enact their terrible policies and then everyone will see how bad they are, dooming them forever.”
This is a ballsy thing to say while Trump’s policies are currently lighting our future on fire, and when the Democratic platform consistently has more popular policies in it.
Honestly, I am amenable to a different point, that by winning Democrats will learn nothing and just go back to "SEE?! WE'RE NOT HIM! That's the only thing we have to do to win!"
I’m not sure I follow. You mean if they win next year? Because right now they should only be thinking “he won by a landslide… maybe what he’s doing can work.”
Trump didn't win the popular vote by a landslide. It was close.
I think we're talking about the man of the hour. Mamdani.
Ohhh sorry when you said “we’re not him” I thought you meant Zohran Mamdani, not Trump. The dem leadership are not thrilled about Mamdani and I though that was what you were referring to.
They are simply generating clips for the loyal segment of MAGA, nobody in power believes this going to last, they are just trying to stretch it on as long as possible until they can get a Trump 2.0 lined up that his base will follow.
All of this makes a lot more sense when you look at followings of people as resources or "political mana." They are the stick that backs up the policy. They are the energy that drives the machine forward when bureaucracy says "slow down"or "you can't do that."
Every political figure has their own unique mana bar, their own special following of varying degrees of power, but Trump's mana bar is different.
Trump's base is not remotely the American majority, but they are the most mana-dense group out there. They are pure, raw, power to exert political will. Not as individuals, they're stupider than soggy drywall as individuals. As a group, they have all the cards because they are:
United no matter who is part of the group. No entry requirements other than loyalty.
Guaranteed loyal. Trump can tell them to jump, they jump. Trump eats a baby on TV, they will wear "Eat the baby" T-shirts the next day. Trump says "storm the capitol" to prove to Congress and Senate that he has them on a leash and they even do that.
Patriotic, they carry the flag. The left is largely anti-jingoism, but in the world-stage, flags have power. Patriotism is team-power. When we abandoned the flag we gave up a large swath of power.
Armed and are violent. Again, you see this as anti-social and harmful, and on a community level it often is, but in the political landscape where there is no actual such thing as "law" having an armed group of loyalists is how nations have been built and preserved for literally thousands of years.
The longer Trump's cabinet and administration can hold onto this group, the more they can do to pilfer the reserves and get their backers and sponsors filled with sweet, sweet sacks of cash in the form of deregulation and tax breaks.
The thing is, like with so many cases like this in history, it's entirely constructed on the shaky foundation of one person's "charm" and ability to hold onto their attention spans or lack thereof.
As soon as Trump keels over, which could literally be at any moment, this political mana will start to disperse. This is why you're starting to see a lot more Vance on programs, a lot more Miller, a lot more of the generals and enablers each trying to secure some fleeting drop of that mana. I do not think people like Vance are going to be able to control even a fraction of the power that Trump commanded.