Democratic strategists are still patting themselves on the back for a catastrophic defeat.
No shit?
A flawless campaign would have won.
Every single staffer took their money and failed at delivering what was expected of them. In companies, board of directors would demand clawbacks
The DNC hasn’t had a real primary since 2008. That’s the real problem.
Hey, at least the incumbent didn’t roll over and withdraw from the race last second in 2012 🙄
This loss is largely on Brandon for stroking his limp dick far, far too long.
Brandon?
Let us proceed, Brandon.
Huh?
If you think Harris lost badly, Biden would have set ratio records.
Aw jeez, can we get off the cheap ‘primary’ diversion? If Mr Trump dies of congestive heart failure on day 207 from an astounding number of bic macs, you also don’t get a primary to choose the next American president OR HIS VP.
It’s hardly a diversion. As stupid a choice as Trump is, he was still viewed by voters as their pick. While the Republican party is held hostage to the populist Trump and his supporters, the DNC won’t even let voters participate in the selection of candidates. Can you really say that Biden won a normal primary (coming from behind as other candidates strategically dropped out)? Would you say Harris was selected by voters at all? Did Clinton’s bailing out of the DNC in 2016 not register with you?
I understand why voters haven’t been that excited about the Democrats for over a decade.
Ideologically similar candidates dropped out of a race and put their support behind someone ideologically similar when it became apparent that they were splitting support. Once they did that support of the voters coalesced behind Biden. Not sure why people think that’s so strange.
Putting aside how primaries are really not like team sports, I think that you have to admit that it was the DNC (or, charitably, the candidates) that chose Biden to remain in the race, rather than the voters. My whole point is that voters have had little say in the DNC primaries. That is what is strange. Voters should drive candidate selection, rather than just “coalesce”.
Who said it was like team sports?
Ideologically similar candidates dropped out of a race and put their support behind someone ideologically similar when it became apparent that they were splitting support
ie, like a team
You brought up how the candidates seemed to view the contest in more of an us vs. them, or team competition, sort of way. This isn’t how primaries typically work. Primaries are typically contests of individuals. Sorry if that was unclear enough that I had to explain it to you.
Anyway, the point is that the voters didn’t decide on Biden so much as Biden was decided for them.
Sorry that I keep posting and delete or edit. I think we’re talking past each other for whatever reason so it isn’t particularly useful to keep making arguments.
Our differences aside I hope you have a good day :)
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Biden received nearly twice as many votes as Bernie. Before Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out Biden had received more votes than them combined. Seems like voters did choose.
Just because the person you want doesn’t win doesn’t invalidate the primaries.
What primaries lol.
That isn’t what invalidated the primaries.
Cool
Well of course they didn’t, they got their asses kicked. From what I saw they ran the Hillary Clinton 2.0 campaign.
There’s so much cope out there. Sure she “only” lost by 2 million-ish votes, but when you disaggregate the data and see these votes came from almost exclusively the most embattled counties in the country, 2 million suddenly becomes a much more meaningful number.
Although, I am worried about Republican strategies moving forward. Frankly, Trump’s policies will have some very strong negative consequences if he follows through on them. It will be interesting to see Republicans try to win using the “down with the system!” strategy of the past 8 years when Trump is gone and they have the incumbency advantage. If the Dems put someone good up, they’ll win handily again.
Frankly, Trump’s policies will have some very strong negative consequences if he follows through on them.
Trump plans to destroy the United States governmental system and become a king, with the power to kill his opponents and remove anyone’s ability to ever challenge his hold on power without bringing down the full weight of a multi-trillion-dollar punitive system down upon themselves. Probably he will imprison or kill anyone who tries to disobey him. Also, he’s explicitly allied himself with violent foreign adversaries who view us as an enemy that needs to be exterminated.
I would call that negative consequences. It’s not guaranteed that he will succeed, but that’s what he’s planning, and he has some powerful allies who are going to try to help him with it.
I disagree. the dude is obviously not a monarch.
If you use words like ‘ask’, ‘cope’, or ‘spend’ like a noun, I like it when you do it really early so I can move on.
Don’t get me wrong: an average is just that. You be you.
All she had to say was:
“Israel had a right to defend itself, however after their indescriminate attacks on civillians in Gaza, not just the men, but also, the women and children, an act that clearly and undeniably violate internation laws, Israel no longer have the right to defend itself. I will immediately call on President Biden to suspend any and all military aid to Israel. Futhermore, sanctions will be imposed on Israel until they cease their indiscriminate killings.”
Then actually make Biden do it. Kneecap him if he doesn’t.
And for domestic policy:
“As president, I ensure every American has access to healthcare by calling on Congress to pass legislation that would make Medicare For All a reality in America.”
There, campaign saved. Just keep up the public appearances, talk to people, and win the election.
But unfortunately, that’s a different timeline. This timeline is fucked.
I think you overestimate how much Americans care about Palestine or foreign affairs in the wake of post covid inflation.
I don’t think its that “Americans Care”, but its the fact that it fuels propaganda that strengthens the “Both Sides Same” narrative which causes democrats to stay home.
I disagree. Kamala could have cried ‘from the river to the sea’ or even ‘free Palestine now!’ I really don’t think it would have made those reluctant democrats get off their couches. The apathy goes beyond foreign affairs and you’re overestimating the general populace. Online discussions of geopolitics don’t mirror the real conversations Americans are having. So whire IP is big here, I hardly believe my Mom who is a dem is thinking about it much. Its really the grocery bill.
I think far too many people see the price of groceries, fall for the GOP line that it’s Biden’s fault (and that deporting all illegal immigrants will help) and think Trump will save the day.
Like, yeah, post-covid recovery has been hard. Mostly stagnant wages don’t help. People feel that. Unfortunately it’s harder to feel the fact that other countries are feeling the exact same things, often worse than we are, so they vote for some weird nostalgia for the days when things were better under Trump.
Sanders said it perfectly in his open letter after the election.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.
Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.
Democrats just didn’t do enough to make people believe that their lives would change for the better from them. Continuing the status quo is not something they wanted to hear.
I can agree with that. People are so sick of things they want a disruptor. It’s hard to present yourself as that when you’re currently in office.
Going to the comment I replied to, most people don’t really know or care enough about what’s going on in Palestine right now. Not that that shouldn’t, just that they don’t (but admittedly those who do could be critical in Michigan). Medicare for all is certainly a disruptive idea, but it’s only a piece of what makes a person a disruptor. One that I’d bet not everyone fully understands.
Only a vocal, very noisy minority care about Palestine. The rest pretend to care to avoid being “cancelled”. And the narrow voting marging showed that.
I think Palestine was a demotivating factor for a lot of people, Michigan was still a pretty incredible outlier, but Trump picked up Muslim and Arab American voters across the board. A deciding factor? No, but a factor.
Now immigration… I’ve talked to people who’ve voted democratic by rote for their entire lives who voted for Trump over immigration. It was an extremely effective talking point that was ignored by Dems early on, then ceded to Republicans.
