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I really wonder what would happen if, say, Taylor Swift or MrBeast actually ran for president.
Who could compete with that? You can say the parties would try to oust them, but look how that worked out for Trump, and he had far less name recognition back then.
I would love to think that people wouldn’t just vote based on who they recognize most from TV but here we are
Well, that already happened for Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
At least one of those two was actually competent at his job.
Schwarzi?
He actually did a lot to reduce gerrymandering practices in California
As a Republican? That's surprising. Although Cali mostly swings democrat, so it might have even been beneficial for R.
He was an old-school republican and honestly pretty liberal overall. He’s still far from MAGA as far as I know.
He's actively anti-MAGA. Dude knows first-hand what fascism does to people.
He’s actually on the very short list of “republicans I actually kinda respect somewhat” - Adam kinzinger and Liz Cheney too, largely because they very clearly do not like fascists, even if I strongly disagree with a TON of their politics.
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