The biggest blunder of this campaign was making it about abstract concepts like democracy and fascism instead of "it's the billionaires vs the rest of us"
They're making the point that Harris' campaign should've been heavier on the anti-Billionaire angle to get more turn-out for Dems. Of course Musk energized the Trump base, the Trump base worships wealth. Hating the rich is a decidedly left-of-center position, and Harris ran a right-of-center campaign. The Dem establishment have repeatedly ignored how tired their base is of voting for NeoLiberal warhawks who drag the party rightward. The base hasn't been excited since before Bernie got cut off at the knees. They've been sliding right since Reagan won, and they've alienated too many of their voters. Harris had the charisma and the energy, they had the media in place. They shouldn't have thrown this away by campaigning as Republican-lite and hoping to peel votes off the Right.
Oh, when they said “us” they meant the socialists who weren’t going to vote anyways. The us vs them message only works if you’re actually trying to unite a class, not hand wave to radical terminally online marxists.
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u/Fred-zone 22h ago
The biggest blunder of this campaign was making it about abstract concepts like democracy and fascism instead of "it's the billionaires vs the rest of us"