In my new op-ed for @tnr.bsky.social: Democrats abandoned their base for a neoconservative pipe dream.
That's why we, the people, must come in and transform the party, whether its entrenched leadership wants it or not: https://newrepublic.com/article/188172/democrats-need-clean-house-screw
That's why we, the people, must come in and transform the party, whether its entrenched leadership wants it or not: https://newrepublic.com/article/188172/democrats-need-clean-house-screw
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Facts/Truth doesn't register when it's buried under 15' of B.S. on the daily.
If we don't focus on what people are watching/hearing, we will lose again.
That’s the reason why she lost. Democrats are over thinking this.
The party will be ripe for takeover, and we should be cognizant of that, because the GOP sure as hell will be.
it's a new war and we need new generals.
They explicitly wrote off the entire youth vote and northern battleground states, when asked they said they neither needed or wanted their vote because they'd pick up more republicans.
And they got fewer than Biden in 2020.
Not the voter's idea, it was Dems.
Insiders on this site even have bragged about how little they needed die hard democrat voters to win, and did everything they could to shit all over them.
Well careful what you wish for, because here's the result.
Cases and deaths shot up 90% if you remember.
But that's not what or who I was talking about anyway, so injecting a nonsequeter into this really doesn't help.
Also, as I candidate I don't think it helped Harris that she was automatically associated to the emotion since she is VP.
The time was for this was with Bernie. That time has passed. Republicans control all branches of government and the supreme court. They are going to remove the right to vote from millions of people. They are going to lock in a permanent Republican majority indefinitely.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/harris-cheney-democrats-campaign-trump-election-2024-1235158805/
The Democratic Party needs a modern-day Long to counter right-wing populism.
Desperately unserious
Sincerely,
A 40 year old single dad of 2 gen z girls
Rather than pushing this as the primary message, talk about how you're going to help their pocketbooks: job security, lower taxes, unions, etc.
we have to succeed at picking the nominee FOR the DNC , not the one the DNC picks for us.
She was given an impossible task & outperformed by every measure
The hill that couldn’t be overcome was Russo-Trumpian propaganda shredding a (successful) Biden administration
+ there’ll be more moderates up for grabs when Trump2 implodes
It's insulting & disrespectful.
No wonder ppl are cynical.
The Dem party brand is trash & something needs to change.
Despite only having 100 days.
Trump pulled 1m new voters in the swing states.
Maybe some races just can't be won.
Harris had a record breaking ground game, Trump only had Musk's army of paid slobs.
He still got 1m more votes in the swing states.
I think pandering to republican voters over the her base was a big mistake as well as ignoring the states that weren’t swing states and not having a real primary
When I saw that Dixville Notch moved from 5-0 for Biden to 3-3 Harris I sensed that it might come down bad.
But they completely botched other cental elements of good campaigning.
People still suffer from inflation and wanted to punish Biden, and they trust Trump on that topic.
All of that is pure delusional, but how do you counter that?
I think not standing up for the marginalized people Trump was attacking was a mistake and her horrible stance on the genocide taking place is Gaza really hurt her in critical places
When it is painfully clear by now that most voters have no effing clue about specific messages.
Trump hammered on migration and transphobia.
In any case, "would you look at these freaks?" is still solid messaging that should be picked back up.
That's fascinating. I've been told by progressives that she ran on "Trump Bad" too *much*!
Lock up the criminal weirdos
And
20$ minimum wage
Not that complicated stuff that requires a functioning brain to grasp 🤪
Campaigns do a lot of internal polling... Why is everybody assuming that they picked this strategy without validating it?
The weirdo line was fun, but does fun mitigate
"I am afraid of inflation and migrants"
Ds have some serious reflecting and restructuring to do. And they better 🤬 do it.
Even if Harris had won, just the fact of losing that many votes should still have set of some very loud alarm bells at DNC HQ.
This is not the sign of a well run campaign.
And as said many times before: messages do not matter to others who find out on election day that Biden dropped out.
Ultimately though, the majority of the American people believe a criminal, racist, sex offender who will execute policies to increase inflation and the debt is the best choice to lead them.
This is inescapable.
But Bernie was campaigning for Biden’s economic agenda last week.
No wonder why, it succeeded in reducing income inequality by more than any admin since the ‘60s.
If everyone is doing worse; IE will trend positive. GDP has a similar problem, no one can eat GDP and no one can live in DJI tends.
These are shit metrics.
I would like people to stop writing this without recognizing that a two party system is guaranteed by the mechanics of our system. If you really hate it (justifiable!), your move is to push for systemic reform. It’s not about Americans as people.
The #Duopoly must be destroyed by abandoning it and embracing a 3rd Party. The Green Party is in the best position to replace the Democratic Party.
There will be no 'next election.'
The Democratic Party will be disbanded.
So it doesn't matter.
It's over.
Her family is literally being subjected to a genocide backed by the American government.
don't really tho cuz I'm a big fan except for this sh*t
If the base truly thinks Trumps a threat, they aren’t sitting on the couch because Harris worked with Liz
The Dem leadership will fight a Leftist insurgency harder than they'll fight Trump.
I'd rather put my efforts into building something new than fighting a bunch of West Wing disciples for the next several decades.
Liberal social media is full of criticisms of the Green Party, from rarely running for anything other than President to not working with the Democrats to force them left. Someone could create a third-party that addresses these concerns and be more effective than the Greens, no?
Look at how they moved heaven and earth to crush Bernie after 2016.
He was gonna win, & suddenly EVERY primary contender drops out & puts their weight behind Biden? Nah.
1) Dem party leadership was secretly working to enable fascism the whole time, like a corrupt boxer taking a fall
2) it's already too late to fix the Dem party; we have fascism for the foreseeable future
“True Bernie-ism has never been tried!”
We need to be able to accept that a poll respondent saying "the economy" is not actually conclusive. People make their decisions then back into the reason.
There's more cultural political and intellectual diversity to Joe Biden's left than there is go his right where the only ideas you'll find is a broad consensus for shit billionaires like to believe and anything else is the death of the west
Cheyney wanted those things.
Her beef with Trump was personal and NOT political and it was INANE for Democrats to assume it it was political.
She went right along with him in votes.
There is no transforming the party. It's become the Republican Party of the Bush era, and the problems are systemic. It must be destroyed. It is jeopardizing the survival of humanity.
Maybe starting with all the "we've lost!" emails in March, that shit was demoralizing as hell.
Now that a full blown fascist takeover is underway, they did it by hacking the tabulation machines
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