Why she deserved to lose: Gaza genocide

Why she actually lost: voters inappropriately blaming democrats for the high inflation in 2021-2023

Why this sucks:

  • since Gaza protest voters weren't actually a difference maker, there's not as much opportunity for us to agitate about it as we would've liked. Liberals will probably be dismissive of the argument that Harris lost because of her position about Gaza, and they'll be right; it just doesn't really hold up.
  • the liberal smugness about ignorant voters that we're surely going to see in the next few weeks is... actually kind of correct.

Let me know if you think I'm wrong about any of this. I'd kind of like to be wrong, honestly.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    18 hours ago

    Ugh they could have slammed debt cancellation through, hammered on that, and swept. Absolute dick tripping.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      9 hours ago

      The tendency to throw their hands up and run away from their own policies at the first sign of pushback is something that seems to stick with the public, and it probably blunts the effect of their attempts to portray themselves as the people with the actual policy plans (not that Kamala had much in the way of concrete proposals anyway)