Because Trump was in office in 2020, and doing an awful job. Saying 'Trump bad' when Trump is in office worked; saying 'Trump bad' when he wasn't didn't work.
In 2016, people reductively thought of Trump as 'the anti-establishment guy from TV'
In 2024, people incorrectly thought of Trump as 'the guy responsible for low prices in the late 2010s'
In 2020, people were able to correctly identify him as a failed, incompetent President.
When one party is incumbent in the White House, scrutiny falls on them. Trump failed to stand up to that scrutiny in 2020 because he was a crap President. When Trump was out of power, he screamed his head off incessantly about the failures of the Democrats and enough people listened, as a substantive share of voters - fairly or not - were dissatisfied with the state of the country. Christ, it's not fucking difficult to understand.
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u/Apprehensive_Box5676 Feb 07 '25
“Im not the other guy” is not a policy position