@lilithsaintcrow This gets closer to the truth than most electoral post-mortems, but still doesn't go far enough, and gets a few facts wrong. In particular, it implies that Democratic enthusiasm was dampened toward the end of the campaign. In fact, Gallup was still reporting record-breaking enthusiasm numbers toward the end. The real problem was that Democratic enthusiasm was very unevenly distributed: many remained as enthusiastic as ever, and drove up the averages, while many others didn't give a damn, stayed home, and doomed the #Harris campaign. And there's no evidence that Harris's positions on Gaza and other issues important to us on the true Left had any significant effect on any significant fraction of EITHER group. That's pure projection. It was all about the economy: the half-century of corporate Democratic neoliberalism that funneled the bulk of the nation's wealth to billionaires and corporations, and made the lives of the 99.99% more and more precarious. As much as I would have liked to see Harris run a more progressive campaign, it's unlikely that anything she could have said or done in those few months would have changed the outcome. If the #JackassParty wants to ensure that we still have elections in 2028, and that it wins them, it needs to change its positions NOW — not in 2028. Drop the self-congratulatory #BlueMAGA cultism; admit that Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were all disasters, not role models; above all, recognize that economic radicalism is not a luxury but an absolute necessity.
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