My position for a while was that if Biden runs away with this, whatever shit Trump tries to pull still won't be enough. His best shot was always getting it to a place he can work around the margins using voter supression and blatant cheating. I just thought the trajectory was leading to a Biden blowout.

I don't think that anymore. I can absolutely see this one being >= 5 points come election day. I think the overall Dem aesthetic will start to wear thin on people. I really have no idea how the debates are going to go, but I see them swinging in Trump's favor.

If that's the case, you gotta beat the house on election day, and Trump is the house and you know what he's been doing.

I don't know, just sharing my thoughts. Good to be back with you homies.

  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This makes me think that the Democrats' strategy is to just assume that they will win, and carry on under that impression. It's only when they REALLY fuck up, that they stop and consider, oh, right, we're supposed to try to appeal to voters. We don't need the left, cuz we're gonna win! We don't need to call the GOP's blatant corruption out, cuz we're gonna win! Why rock the boat? We're gonna win!

    • GoopOnYaGrinch [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The thing is, they are calling out the blatant corruption. Trump is sabotaging the USPS as a voter supression tactic. Dems are up in arms about it. It's just... what the fuck are they gonna do? They have no way in engaging in resistance outside of screaming #VOTE. Then if he wins, they're just going to call for the mods who will never come.

    • worker_democracy [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      When Harris and Biden did their presser last week, NPR asked a Dem strategist if they were worried about Harris alienating the left-wing of the party. I shit you not his actual response: "Our rule of thumb for elections is that if we're alienating the left-wing of the party, we're doing something right."

      Every day I consider if I should bother voting Biden, and every day Democrats explicitly tell me not to.

      • Mike_Penis [any]
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        4 years ago

        “Our rule of thumb for elections is that if we’re alienating the left-wing of the party, we’re doing something right.”

        what the fuck. please let me die

        • dufftron [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I literally cannot get this video out of my head:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRNnIMDkUY&list=FLHaiWz9zB4eNNu2_MmgXC5A