Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by stuaxo on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:20AM
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The Democrats never seem to do much about the system when in power.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by astrange on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:05AM
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If they'd done something they would've lost more. Voters, who on average are near retirement age, hate it when you do anything because they think it'll affect their retirement.
In this case they were blocked by Manchin/Sinema from anything like filibuster reform, but they did get some big important economic reforms in.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by tomrod on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:51AM
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You nailed my biggest complaint.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by tstrimple on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:49AM
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My new unhealthy conspiracy theory is democrats like being perpetually in the minority where they can talk a good game but don’t actually have to follow through on anything. That’s why they always tack right and try to compromise with people who call them enemies and groomers and demons. “We’ll welcome them into our cabinet” never sat well with me in the era of Trump.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by astrange on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:06AM
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Polls show voters think Harris/Walz were too liberal, not the other way round. They mostly haven't gone right either; Biden campaigned as a moderate and ran as the most progressive administration in my life.
(Which was good! But voters hated it because they don't like change and don't like inflation.)
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by tstrimple on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:42PM
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There are zero polls which show this.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by bezier-curve on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:45AM
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To me it seems like Democrats just failed to listen to their constituents, and being one who wanted Bernie Sanders to have some chance at running in 2016 and 2020, I think this is the reckoning of that more than anything. The Democrats have ignored their own base and this is what happens when they pander to signals from everywhere else.
8 years later, after all of this political baggage, prospection, and media repudiation the Democrats managed to lose in resounding manner – not just the electoral college, but the senate, house, AND popular vote.
The Democrats have centered their entire identity for the last 8 years about being anti trump. That message has lost, and now there are no real bright spots in regards to messaging that they can take away from this.