Well, when the loop takes place there is a travel in time taking place… but not as in the standard time travel films.
I think is important to point out that in the Groundhog time loops the travel is only of the memories or the information, there is no energy-mass traveling (though information is a kind of energy, let me skip physics here), and the traveler at the beginning of the loop has not carried anything from the future but the memories of the previous loop, did not age or suffered physical modifications (there may be exceptions, sure).
So I think that is a kind of time travel, but a sub-genre where the travel is less material than in the typical time travels.
I really would love to be able to tag this kind of beings capable of such actions in a way that I can recognise them when I find them out there in person, not for violence of any kind against them, a % of humans are alike and may be useful for certain tasks, but to take informed decision about with whom prioritise my altruism or any social collective benefit: I may share this planet with them, but I will never call them my people.
“To shoehorn something” is a literal common expression in Spanish, lately often used to indicate a deliberated misdirection of a debate into a different argument at the minimum occasion (usually via any fallacy)… and there are even shoehorns literally with long sticks for the elders…
For USA (and most of western countries) I have the prejudice that are effective plutocracies (where wealth is not only liquid money in the bank) disguised of democracies, the more is only dual the polarisation the higher the control of the wealthy
Well, when the loop takes place there is a travel in time taking place… but not as in the standard time travel films.
I think is important to point out that in the Groundhog time loops the travel is only of the memories or the information, there is no energy-mass traveling (though information is a kind of energy, let me skip physics here), and the traveler at the beginning of the loop has not carried anything from the future but the memories of the previous loop, did not age or suffered physical modifications (there may be exceptions, sure).
So I think that is a kind of time travel, but a sub-genre where the travel is less material than in the typical time travels.