The comments from the "Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Stacey Abrams" are so out of touch. "I think a lot of people voted with a false sense of security,” said Smith. “Folks were betting that if they voted to enshrine abortion protections, Donald Trump wouldn’t actually co-sign a national abortion ban."
They don't like the candidate that they see as a continuance of the last 4 years where things have only gotten worse. They don't like the candidate that got zero delegates during the primaries. They don't want to vote for republican lite when the real thing is literally right there. Maybe if they pushed for something for once but it's pointless the even gesture towards that because they have no actual interest in making things better or even winning.
They don't like the candidate who sat around and did nothing with the administration's power when Dobbs dropped
HOLD UP! Would you take it a step further and say the party that just collectively shrugged and said "well that's that" when an unelected "parliamentarian" shows up out of nowhere to say $15/hr cannot be considered in a Senate bill might be considered feckless and ineffectual?
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he is disappointed in the decision and pledged to pursue other legislation to increase the minimum wage.
"We are not going to give up the fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 to help millions of struggling American workers and their families," Schumer said in a statement. "The American people deserve it, and we are committed to making it a reality."
narrator voice: they gave up the fight immediately, because they never wanted to fight it in the first place.
100%, any messaging on abortion fell incredibly flat when Roe was overturned on their watch
it worked for the midterm legislative elections because people thought that would be a factor but why vote for an executive that sat on its fucking hands
Exactly. Why would anyone expect them to do something in the next four years? They've already had two and did nothing. Every other promise they made before the 2020 election they folded on, and they were making new promises for the next term, acting like they weren't already in power.
The Democrats did nothing about it while in power, plus Trump has said he'd veto a national abortion ban (for whatever that's worth). Republicans know abortion is a losing issue for them, for example Ohio keeps voting for Trump but has legalized marijuana and voted abortion rights into the state constitution. Most voters have resigned to fighting for it at the state level, it wasn't a presidential issue for them this year. And on other issues, Democrats weren't convincing that they had much to offer.
People like the GOP but like liberal policies. Yeah, I said liberal because everyone (except me of course) in this country is a goddamn
!"GOP entryism when?
