It was simple.
People didn't see the wages increase by much, people didn't see prices of stuff drop.
Result: "Meh, I voted for them dems last time and nothing changed, might as well just stay home"
Because they had no memory of the Trump clown show.
They were fighting each other for toilet paper under Trump.
Fighting for toilet paper was better than homelessness.
Also definitively better than not being able to put food on the table.
Democrats have to realize that no one cares about your identity politics when they're working 100 hours a week at three jobs for the privilege of living in a roach-infested studio apartment.
Alternative quote: "I'm going to stay home, because I don't understand anything, and I'm the biggest idiot ever!"
It's simple that they spent their time and energy trying to convince Republicans that would hardly ever cross the aisle while ignoring progressives. That's why they lost. The Republican party is uniform, the Democrats are not.
Uniformly
controlledguided by baseless fear mongering, but yeah.
Why dwell on the Cheney thing?
She and the party didn't offer an economically populist message. Any status quo democrat would have lost.
Well it's a good thing Trump promises to fix everything by raising prices and deporting everyone with a tan! That's an economically populist message I can get behind!
/s
It just underscores the shitty campaign they ran.
“I will have a Republican in my cabinet, guaranteed.”
Where is that quote from? Media distorted her words when having been asked about such. It was around the lines of "Would you consider putting a Republican in your cabinet". And she said sure I believe diversifying views is good.
Far from guaranteeing anything. But w.e, it's all in the past now
you don't have to move if you are already there
I thought this was the implied conclusion before the last sentence lmao
Campaigning with the daughter of a war criminal was not a good look, even if it didn't move Kamala right on any actual policy. It's perfectly reasonable to look askance at me if I'm out there doing campaign stops with Uday Hussein, even if I still support a $15 minimum wage.
Okay, now compare "Campaigned with the daughter of a war criminal" to "Is a war criminal rapist felon con man with dementia." You're arguing that "Not a good look" is worse than "Possibly the actual Anti-Christ."
The average Kamala Stan has never followed her campaign nor listened to any of her speeches. Not surprising since every time Kamala said something ridiculous the echo chambers downvoted it into oblivion.
What about the "I'm going to put together a council of Republicans to advise the govt"
My local Democratic party affiliate literally has the photo of Kamala and Liz Cheney holding hands as their cover photo on FB. It's clear the leadership is conservative themselves and are more than willing to hand victories to Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis in order to deny anyone slightly to their left any sort of power.
This is fucking stupid. Yes, campaigning with Cheney didn't push her to the right in and of itself, but she in the same time period promised to include Republicans in her cabinet and build that stupid border wall, so the existence or lack of a causal relationship frankly doesn't matter.
Bluesky looks just like twitter. I thought this was from the birdie site.
Now that I look at it, even the logo looks similar.
