77.3 million Americans voted for Trump in 2024. There were ~340.1 million Americans in 2024. That's ~22%.
It's actually good when media emphasizes how the actions of democratically elected leaders go against what people want, because it helps more people realize how the system does not in fact deliver on its promises.
There are a lot of intentional structural reasons that 22% of the population gets to pick one person to make these kinds of ecocidal decisions that only a few rich people actually want. Taking power away from the people and putting it in the hands of oligarchs is what the American democratic system was designed to do, and it's working very well at that still. When the news helps report on the gap between rulers interests and the interests of the people, that's a good thing.
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