I'm sorry but I don't think you can do "oh the Dems didn't talk about this one issue I love so that's why they lost" in *this* election, democracy was and is on the line, Trump is a horrible man who ran a horrible campaign, sometimes you have to just face the reality of the electorate being awful
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Perhaps people are awful.
Perhaps they have been lied to on an industrial scale.
Harris ran a blazing campaign, presented coherent policies that would have benefited the majority of Americans, and was in all aspects the far better candidate, but millions of Americans preferred fascism.
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Hating the women!
They’ve lost faith in politics and like Brexit here and populism around the world they just want to smash the system that they perceive doesn’t work for them.
Scary times.
We’re in the territory of not even wrong.
(And though too small in number to matter THIS time, you see the same thing on the American far left.)
Biden stepped down at the perfect time to wrongfoot the GOP and Harris ran a phenomenal campaign, and yet millions still voted for the corrupt and incoherent autocrat.
Was it Harris and her campaign or the track record of the Biden administration?
The entire media, including most liberal outlets, chose to ignore and downplay his accomplishments at every stage. I have been saying this for 5 years. Keep your hot takes, your cracks about old people to yourself. The stakes are too high.
- he was President before and wasn't a fascist then (too disorganised & constrained...)
- he won't really do the fascist things he said he will; that's just Trump shooting his mouth off
The sudden euphoria/hopium that came out of ONE poll was totally understandable but unjustified and the vilified pollsters were mostly correct 🤷♂️
Just more ‘them’ than ‘us’ 💩
I guess we’re more reliant on instinct than we’d like to admit.
For this kind of loss to happen requires a lot of people to make really shitty decisions. You can't route around enough people sufficiently determined to cause damage.
eg Project 2025 proposals don't have widespread support even among Republican voters; far too extreme..
Blame Dems leadership and Biden.
She didn’t lose because she was a poor candidate. She lost because millions of Americans find fascism attractive. There is nothing Harris or any other Democratic candidate could have done to change that.