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My dad and I were talking a while back about Trump, Biden, the 2020 election, all of that. He's a Trump supporter although he never went full-antivax lunatic so I'm thankful for that at least. We were talking about how he thought there might have been some irregularities in the vote and couldn't believe Trump lost.
At one point in the conversation, I asked him "you know how tons of people just seem to hate Trump? Do you think those people just stayed home on election day?" His thought was that there was no way that Biden had enough support to win. He asked "well how come I never see Biden signs on the side of the road?" to which I replied "Because Biden supporters aren't a cult".
He laughed and dropped it at that point. I don't know if he truly understood what I meant, but I think he at least got my point that people who voted for Biden don't build their entire personality around it.
Biden isn't responsible for Biden's victory in 2020, Trump is. Biden got a whole lot of votes from people who had to hold their nose to ensure Trump lost.
That's another point that I've made. People who voted democrat weren't necessarily voting for Biden; they were voting against Trump.