There's no way however to rate their sauce lower than Trump's sauce so that faulty logic simply doesn't hold any sauce at all in explaining the general election result.
Sadly, for now we need to let go of trying to elect a woman. We were burnt both times when we tried, and ended up with this 🤡. It will happen, but not yet.
I think it’s a horrible shame Kamala didn’t have a chance. I think she would have been a groundbreaking leader in so many ways. But a tiny majority voted for American Carnage 2.0 and that’s exactly what we’re going to get.
Kamala never should have been the candidate... Bernie wasn't elected because he is far left. Biden was primary selected the first time because he's a centrist. Dems needed another primary, Joe stayed too long. Keep thinking your ID politics wasn't an issue. Social change takes generations...
she did have a chance. She has massive momentum when she was tagged in and up until she chose her VP.
"Weird" was the most effective dem campaign tactic since Obama, but the consultants put a muzzle on Walz and had Kamala run to the right, and proclaim that she would be just like Biden.
Yeah, the same establishment Dem strategists that cost Clinton the election in ‘16 handed down THAT bit of sound advice.
I don’t know if we could’ve called them “weird” all the way to the White House, but “We’re not going back” was a slogan for the moment and for the ages. But they killed it, too.
They lost the momentum when they started going after Trump rather than talking about what she was gonna do. People loved the joy and the weird. The Trump attacking didn’t work nearly as well as their own personalities did. Unscripted, Walz was great. Kamala being herself was great.
I agree that they seemingly put a muzzle on Walz, who had been effective early in the campaign as a feisty but likable attack dog. But then I noticed a change at the VP debate where they made him go all wonkish and kumbayya with Vance instead of calling Vance on his B.S. That was a turning point.
I’m an independent cus I can’t stand the DNC. It started w/Al Franken. DNC is a lot of talk. They don’t have a vagina. They turned the other cheek. Try to be the good guy. Look at us. We don’t fight back. We don’t insult that’s what I did like abt VP Harris she talked smack at the orange turd.
I think Harris was great, but she needed to have more. She needed more time, she needed to speak perfectly every time she opened her mouth, she needed to support Gaza and Israel, embrace Biden and reject Biden. Oh, and probably not be a woman. Her opponent spouted off nonsense but he wasn't a woman.
Much deeper than that. Dems still don’t get the fact many Americans want to actively burn it all down. Everything is now a fight in daily life. Whether you make $30,000 a year or $300,00. You either fight or you are victimized. Trump was right about the “rigged” system he bellowed about.
The tie-up with Liz Cheney was a principled effort to reach across the proverbial aisle and get through the partisan political reflexes we’ve lived through forever, and to do it with someone carving out her identity as a conservative, separate from her father, one who’s not breathing the usual fire.
I don’t think it was going to be that formal or official, but it was refreshing just the same to see the effort being made. Politics doesn’t have to be bipolar.
A respectful dissent. Yes, much of politics is about the feels, but there’s also a need for voters’ ability (or their willingness) to step outside the shadow of their expectations. Kamala called on us as a nation to do that, with qualifications, courage and joy. We dropped the ball, not Kamala. 1/
I disagree, when you are desperate for a change in candidate and one finally is given to us, it's patently obvious that you shouldn't run with "I will be hardly any different from the guy you didn't like "
I know, that unforced error didn’t help. But that was at the very start. Kamala went on to explain in detail how she would have been profoundly different from Biden, and she laid out policy ideas with more specifics than Trump could dream of.
??? No it wasn't? She was asked after the DNC and didn't change course after that. Her exact words were "The biggest difference between my presidency and Biden's would be that I would put a republican in my cabinet."
2/ I grant you, she misspoke on the campaign trail more than once, but it wasn’t a lack of ideas. Also, loyalty to Biden (maybe too much) complicated her rollout, and led to her smothering her own message.
But going back to August she was putting distance between her and Biden on Israel. She went on to carve out her own positions on child care tax credits, first-time home buying assistance, and changing capital gains tax rates. 1/
I don't remember her ever putting distance between herself and Biden, especially in regards to the genocide committed by israel. Those policy positions you mentioned are more of the same shit we get from libs all the time: tiny band-aids to bigger problems. 1/
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How about Gavin for 2028?
"Weird" was the most effective dem campaign tactic since Obama, but the consultants put a muzzle on Walz and had Kamala run to the right, and proclaim that she would be just like Biden.
I don’t know if we could’ve called them “weird” all the way to the White House, but “We’re not going back” was a slogan for the moment and for the ages. But they killed it, too.
Her momentum was strong and growing. I miss her rallies terribly.
I think it was the centrists who stayed home.
Pelosi's refusal to hold a primary set her up to fail IMO.