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I mean, at a minimum, they think they're helping students. Nobody would vote for a politician who just makes things worse, that doesn't make sense.

In this case, they're trying to make universities more fair and to reduce government waste in universities by removing DEI programs. There's lots of logic to that.

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Izikiel43 a day ago | parent | next [-]

>Nobody would vote for a politician who just makes things worse

Why not? One thing is the campaign, another one is exercising his power. To quote a famous Argentinian President: "If I said what I would do, they wouldn't have voted for me".

	▲	guywithahat 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can't find the source of that quote (possibly a misquote?), but if I had to guess, he's saying he sold people on the problem, knowing they wouldn't like the solution. Everyone likes the idea of fixing the budget deficit, and some people like the idea of cutting wasteful government spending, but the act of fixing the budget means people lose jobs, and lives are destroyed. Even though it has to happen, people don't like watching it happen. I don't think your "quote" says what you think it says.

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brazzy 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Nobody would vote for a politician who just makes things worse, that doesn't make sense.

Yet, that's what they did. Repeatedly. After he already demonstrated how much worse he would make things.

Oh yeah, he denied that he would execute the planes for how he would make things much, much, MUCH worse, that had been very openly stated by his close associates.

That's enough for it to "make sense" to you, I suppose.