Most annoying "normie" political takes ?

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The two parties are basically mirror images of each other with identical internal workings and only differ ideologically and thus the Democrats could totally nominate some weirdo like Trump.

Or that such a thing as "Reagan Democrats" exists today.

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One that comes to mind now is the notion that political campaigns were not "nasty" until the Internet...or even until Trump ran.

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Not really a take but it's annoying to me how much time people devote to trying to point out Republican inconsistencies as if they were "gotchas". E.g., "Kevin McCarthy said this recently, but two months ago he said this totally opposite thing!"

The GOP hasn't stood for any sort of principle other than the accumulation of power. If you ever took anything they said as anywhere close to reflective of their beliefs or true intentions, here have you been for the last decade-plus?

I don't know if this is so much a "normie" thing as it is a "stupid partisans who don't really understand campaigns and voter demographics in general on both sides" thing, but the idea that showing hypocrisy in some figure on the other side is some sort of DEVESTATING burn that'll ruin them has always been one for me. A great example is when it was revealed that Sarah Palin's daughter was pregnant in 2008 and a bunch of liberal pundits and social media users were all "HA HA SO MUCH FOR GOP FAMILY VALUES AMIRITE?" as if both socons and swing voters weren't fully aware that teen pregnancies happen with teens from conservative families too and that supporting things like abstinence-only education doesn't give a parent full reign to control every matter of their kid's private life. (On a side note the Obama campaign's decision to stay out of attacks on this completely was not only extremely smart it's something that I wonder if it would happen or even be possible today with how campaigns are ran and that certain blue check types would try to force it into being an issue even if it clearly doesn't help.)

Bringing up Al Gore or some liberal celebrity engaging in some not exactly carbon neutral lifestyle activity or random Democrats going out in public without a mask back when mask mandates were common are the right-wing equivalents.

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That New Mexico will be competitive in 2024, and that Lula is a radical socialist

As it's been covered here, any "X is a swing state" or "this state will be competitive" takes are by definition NOT "normie" takes.

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This isn't really a normie take, but a lot of people here including myself assumed that normal voters didn't really care about candidates running on stopthesteal or overturning democratic elections, and would vote soley based on economic issues or anger at the Democrats. It does seem that given the loss of almost every election denying canidate in a swing-state it is something that matters to voters.

That's really the opposite of a normie take, plenty of "normie" voters (like my parents) would've definitely claimed that was a big deal pre-election. It was overthinking at places like here that convinced us otherwise.

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The idea that the Green Party would win if people weren't so afraid of the spoiler effect, and that a strong third party would solve the US's problems.

The idea that Andrew Cuomo is a hero of the left.

Also a lot of white liberals in predominantly white areas think that their social circles are representative of the Democratic primary electorate, or that the Democratic primary electorate consists of people like them plus a bunch of Joe Manchins. This was very popular in the leadup to 2016.

That actually reminds me of the notion that the Democratic Party is divided into a "Bernie Wing" and "Hillary Wing".