In some sense, I think the answer to "is it election misinformation?" is almost always "yes" by now. Honestly the credibility of reality is stretching a bit thin these days. The ex-President is a convicted felon, the current President's son is a convicted felon. Here's an article from CNN where a guy thinks Hunter Biden should be free under the second amendment (the gun one). The House of Representatives held the Attorney General in Contempt of Congress for giving them transcripts instead of interview tapes, because they can't make attack ads with the transcripts as easily; obviously he's going to get right on charging himself with a crime.
Honestly I think the elections outside the United States turned out more interesting this year:
* The United States of Mexico elected a Jewish woman as Presidenta, beating the United States of America. Don't worry, she's attacking the judiciary the same as the last guy.
* The Conservatives are expected to lose really, really badly in the UK. Normally when you call a snap election, you are not the one caught off-guard by the election, but Rishi Sunak has surprised us (and himself!) Between announcing the election in the pouring rain without an umbrella, to giving a campaign rally where the Titanic was built, to leaving the Normandy WWII memorials early to give a TV interview... the messenger is shooting himself.
* Media are already comparing the UK Tories to the Canadian Conservatives in the 1990s, who were actually listed on the endangered species list. Not many people know that fact.
* Right-wing populist parties did really well in European Parliament elections this month -- likely not well enough to take over though. But it looks like Europe is following America's lead in anti-immigrant populism. For the most part that's not about intra-European immigration, and no one wants to go to war with their neighbors.
* Macron called a snap election for the French parliament, hoping that the moderates will be shocked into action by the EU results, but at the very least getting a government with a mandate to govern.
That's way more interesting than the old reruns in American elections.
Honestly I think the elections outside the United States turned out more interesting this year:
* The United States of Mexico elected a Jewish woman as Presidenta, beating the United States of America. Don't worry, she's attacking the judiciary the same as the last guy.
* The Conservatives are expected to lose really, really badly in the UK. Normally when you call a snap election, you are not the one caught off-guard by the election, but Rishi Sunak has surprised us (and himself!) Between announcing the election in the pouring rain without an umbrella, to giving a campaign rally where the Titanic was built, to leaving the Normandy WWII memorials early to give a TV interview... the messenger is shooting himself.
* Media are already comparing the UK Tories to the Canadian Conservatives in the 1990s, who were actually listed on the endangered species list. Not many people know that fact.
* Right-wing populist parties did really well in European Parliament elections this month -- likely not well enough to take over though. But it looks like Europe is following America's lead in anti-immigrant populism. For the most part that's not about intra-European immigration, and no one wants to go to war with their neighbors.
* Macron called a snap election for the French parliament, hoping that the moderates will be shocked into action by the EU results, but at the very least getting a government with a mandate to govern.
That's way more interesting than the old reruns in American elections.
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