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“This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Roots of Trump’s Win Over Harris

www.democracynow.org “This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Roots of Trump’s Win Over Harris

“This is a collapse of the Democratic Party.” Consumer advocate, corporate critic and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader comments on the reelection of Donald Trump and the failures of the Democratic challenge against him. Despite attempts by left-wing segments of the Democratic base to shift ...

“This is a collapse of the Democratic Party.” Consumer advocate, corporate critic and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader comments on the reelection of Donald Trump and the failures of the Democratic challenge against him.

Despite attempts by left-wing segments of the Democratic base to shift the party’s messaging toward populist, anti-corporate and progressive policies, says Nader, Democrats “didn’t listen.” Under Trump, continues Nader, “We’re in for huge turmoil.”

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They choose their big money corporate donors over the American people and then are surprised when the American people chose big money over them.
They said that in 2016 too after rigging things against populist grassroots candidates in favour of establishment Democrats and learned nothing.
He is an expert, after all. He's the guy whose 3rd party campaign in 2000 siphoned enough votes from Gore in Florida to flip the state (and the election) to Bush.
They need to fire the leaders of Democratic party. Find new blood and new direction. Swing to the right didn't help them.
Liberals would choose fascism over adopting left wing elements into the party. They've made their choice and will now live with it. Repeated failure by leadership to choose a candidate people actually like is what brought us here. Never forget that.
Fuck you, Nader. We wouldn't even be in this mess if it wasn't for you.
Maybe blowing up the Democratic party would be best for everyone.
Move on from the Democrats. It's over. They had their chance with Bernie.
Yes, the Democratic party is out of touch. They lost due to stubbornness - expecting Muslims to vote for Kamala without her making a plan to end the war in Gaza was a gamble that didn't pay off.

Now that the election is over, we need to focus our attention on third parties.
Good fucking riddance...

You fucked up a sure thing and let Trump win. There will never be a female president in my lifetime because Trump beats women.
It's also just another piece of the Overton Window
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Everything in this election saw a monumental move to the right for everyone .... the left (if there ever was any) went to the center, the center went to the right and the right went to the far right

Now right wing or right wing leaning ideas have become the norm and anything that is even remotely left or leftist has become extreme.

America shifted to the right and it brought along everyone, no matter their political leaning along with them.
Honestly I would be okay with it. They've been so ineffective and myopic that I've been done with the party as a whole for a while now.
Good. Whatever follows can't be any worse than the "we need a strong republican party" dems.

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