Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten an earful during a Nebraska town hall held to defend his support of President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts law.
Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten an earful during a Nebraska town hall held to defend his support of President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts law.
When we have fair elections without gerrymandering, brazen disenfranchisement scheme, and a system where a simple majority takes all, we can say things like this.
Until then, grouping the entire populace of a state together has a large portion of victim blaming.
That might have been an argument in 2016, but Trump won the popular vote in 2024. Both across the US, and specifically in Nebraska.
Nebraska is also one of only two states in the US (the other being Maine) where they don’t use a winner-take-all system. They divide votes by district, which saw 4 EC votes for Trump and 1 EC vote for Harris. Albeit, if the districts were stacked closer to proportional representation, it should have only been 3 votes for Trump and 2 for Harris.
I’ve got some extra blame to throw around, at any rate. I’m sympathetic to the people in this audience who want their voice to be heard, but the fact remains that there are still more Trump supporters in Nebraska than supporters of Harris or any other candidate. The majority got their way.
Can you explain to me how responding that they deserved it to these people (that probably largely didn’t vote for trump) in the context that they are going to their rep’s town Hall and raising these issues directly is useful? Seriously fuck this attitude.
I don’t believe these people deserved it. But these people aren’t “Nebraska”, or at least not the majority of it.
Okay, but we’re talking about “these people,” not “Nebraska”
I believe they said Nebraska, not these people.
You’re right. That is what they said. Now go up another level. What was that person commenting on? In other words, what was the context for their comment?
Nebraska as a whole is very red.