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I don't recall seeing this mentioned in any campaigning, so no, people did not vote for it.

And even if this were understood to have been what voting trump meant, that is only 77M out of 334M people in America.






DOGE did feature prominently in the campaigning and some of us did vote for the full package primarily holding our nose on other parts of the campaign that we were not happy with specifically because we wanted to see this happen.

"that is only 77M out of 334M people in America" What's your point here? Our system is set up to give outsized power to whoever secures a majority of the electors. There may be a better alternative but are you complaining about the system being flawed or complaining that the numbers didn't go your way? The rest of us also had to put up with decisions under previous administrations that we didn't appreciate despite only a similar number of people actually voting for the administration.


> The rest of us also had to put up with decisions under previous administrations that we didn't appreciate despite only a similar number of people actually voting for the administration.

That's actually a little rich in this case, considering how few Republicans accept the results of the 2020 election.




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