it’s not like Trump did a “switcheroo” with the judges he would nominate. IIRC he had a robust list of potential nominees during the campaign that was readily available to everyone.

but yeah as you mentioned the media, left, and national-socliast cult members like fender and skinned focused on leaked access hollywood tapes from a decade prior. not the brightest bunch there.

hard work, nuclear family of man and woman, basic decency, not sexualising children in schools

when that is extremist.....may the lord have mercy on you

to be clear this reality fell into the laps of conservatives and there's no way in hell Mitch McConnel of 10 years ago would have ever dreamed the scotus he has now was possible. RBG should have stepped down during Obama's mandate period.

this

Q theocratic voice present.

I hope they pass laws saying the police have to go through your wife's medicine cabinet.

come on, you don't believe for a second that hillary focusing on the potential judicial appointments trump will make would have been a winning strategy in 2016, lol. you know as well as me that it's a very unsexy topic that would have bored the superficial american public to death. even with the massive benefit of hindsight (a rapist making it through confirmation hearings, rbg dying, and all that) there is no way you actually convinced yourself this would have worked for her...

i share your criticism of msm's love for headline-grabbing bullshit (although trump's unapologetic racist dogwhistling was certainly more than just a minor quirk), and democrats' repeated strategic failures and miscalculations, but that doesn't mean that this was preventable by merely a media focus shift - not that i find the general approach of blaming the side who didn't prevent it over the side who actively caused the issue particularly convincing or intellectually honest to begin with... and it sure as hell doesn't support your initial claim that it was "missed" how many judges he appointed.

eroding of women's right, open hostility towards the lgbtq+ community, censoring of free speech, teaching of religious bs over science, no separation of church and state, discrimination of other religions... certainly are extremist to any "decent" human being though.

nice taliban "values" you have there...

the strategy she chose, focus on sexism and racism, lost. and she basically did a victory tour for months before losing. maybe focusing on reality isn't sexy, nor a winning strategy, but if she called out that abortion dies with trump appointments maybe it would have been a better outcome.

as to my claim i believe most americans are unaware or only tangentially aware of the level of judges trump appointed outside of the scotus, and are only aware of the Kavanaugh appointment due to rape allegations. whereas many other events of the trump presidency are crystal clear in their memories. that is what i meant by "missed". it's barely a footnote in their recollection. this is due to how unsexy the topic is, and how boring most people find civics in general. a major fault of the american people and an issue we continue to struggle with, one im sure isn't unique to the USA in any way.

You'd be surprised. Plebbit is full of em.

well, he leaned into racism and "won" (the EC despite losing the popular vote by millions), so again, it's a bit silly to suggest it's a topic that doesn't actually concern america, and it's not like she hasn't warned about his judicial appointments and the lasting effect even a one-term presidency of his might have:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0WU16O

so again, i think it's kind of silly to blame the people that at least TRIED to stop this over the people who actively supported and created this. just "centrist" things i guess?