• agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Because they will credit Trump with everything they like and Biden with everything they don’t. Facts do not matter to these people and pretend like they do is how you alienate a base and lose elections. No amount of oil production is going to make a Trumper vote Biden, but it will discourage those who bought the ‘most climate friendly president’ line. It’s a lose lose situation that no one wants to reckon with because of the profits the energy sector brings in.