I’ve heard strong hints (not from anyone close to Kamala) that Psaki was one of the main reasons that Biden’s team didn’t promote the VP more during those first two years. If so, Psaki was one of the authors of Trump’s win in 2024.
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Where exactly did the Democrats shift right? The Dems haven't shifted right since the Clinton/Gore era. Kerry was to the left of them, Obama to his left, Hillary and then Biden continued the trend. Harris was Biden plus a bunch of new left of center policies.
Which policies shifted right? I’ll grant that the party didn’t shift left in many cases (although Biden governed further to the left than previous Dems), so the actual policies seemed to hold serve.
Campaigning alongside Cheney wasn’t about policy, although some people tried to make it into that.
It seems bizarre that the party that stood up against our behavior in Vietnam is the same party sending billions to Israel.
I understand they’re an ally but allyship was always contingent on behavior, something that has largely fallen by the wayside for the current Democratic Party.
I’d also argue that her “opportunity economy” was chock full of neoliberal economic talking points that read like a 2002 Republican economic policy plan.
Talking points aren’t necessarily policy prescriptions, but a way to communicate to voters who have been made to hate ‘leftist’ terms thanks for RW propaganda. It’s the implementation.
Biden didn’t explicitly run on most of what he passed through Congress.
This goes back to Obama, who hoped that taking immigration seriously would get Republicans to support actual legislation. We need some border policy, but at least Kamala was trying to do it in a way that would respect wildlife, landowners, and asylum seekers.
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I agree with Jen.
Might I point you to their proposed policies?
This broad shift never happened.
Campaigning alongside Cheney wasn’t about policy, although some people tried to make it into that.
I understand they’re an ally but allyship was always contingent on behavior, something that has largely fallen by the wayside for the current Democratic Party.
Biden didn’t explicitly run on most of what he passed through Congress.
Harris’ support of the border security bill, pledging millions to continue building “a wall”.
I mean Biden now holds the record for most deportations since 2014.
It wasn’t a literal wall, at least.