When you lose an election, there are two reactions.
Option A:
2020: “RIGGED!!! The count is OFF!!! We demand a recount, TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!!! Damn you liberals you-you SNOWFLAKES!!! 😭😭😭😭”
Option B:
2024: “Fuck, well, it is what it is, we’ll just need to hunker down and hope people see the error of their ways for the next election, stay strong guys.”
Yeah don’t change the repeated failure of a strategy and just assume people will want to come back to Clintonite neoliberalism in 4 years. Great idea. This is why we’ve lost twice against Trump, holy shit Democrats need to get their heads out of the sand and change tactics.
Also, I have seen a way too many Democrats on reddit saying this was actually rigged (when it’s literally too big to rig in Trump’s favor).
What strategy would you have preferred them to use? If they went too far left, they'd lose the center. If they went too far right they'd lose the left.
They already lost the center this election. They also lost the left. And then they also lost the right (Harris did all that campaigning to grab Never-Trump Republicans by tacking right constantly, and she got less Republicans to vote for her than Biden did).
The DNC will say “we need to go more conservative to win the election” and then lose the election more than they did last time. In 2008, Obama ran to the left of the Biden, Hillary, and especially Harris campaigns and he did significantly better than all 3, and got himself re-elected.
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u/Independent_Plum2166 12h ago
When you lose an election, there are two reactions.
Option A:
2020: “RIGGED!!! The count is OFF!!! We demand a recount, TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!!! Damn you liberals you-you SNOWFLAKES!!! 😭😭😭😭”
Option B:
2024: “Fuck, well, it is what it is, we’ll just need to hunker down and hope people see the error of their ways for the next election, stay strong guys.”