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Love seeing Clinton and Blair’s former strategist be such a fucker
“Mr. Biden’s smaller margin of victory at the top of the ticket. House Democrats, despite a strong advantage on health care, owe their problems to associations with a range of unpopular issues from defunding the police to raising taxes, ending fracking and opening up borders.“
They'll never do that. Identity politics and empty platitudes are the only two things that Democrats have to offer anymore. They'll be screaming that they recognize trans rights and to protect abortion, you need to keep voting blue no matter who.
They've managed to completely re-invent their party as the smug, college educated rich people's party. They managed to get all those middle class and rich household votes that they wanted so badly. That was the goal with Biden. They have moved as far to the right as they possibly could by running a candidate who is just barely a Democrat at all. But Dems have been slowly becoming this kind of party since the days of Clinton. It was the "third way" Dems like Bill Clinton and Joe Biden where the party moved away from labor and worker's rights and embraced hardcore neoliberalism.
The thing with Biden is that he really ran on nothing except "not Trump" and they just barely won the presidency while squandering the Senate and losing seats in the House. The GOP is starting to pick up lower income and working class voters in the biggest margins they've had in decades. Trump got the most POC votes of a Republican candidate since the 1950s. This should be enough to tell anyone that identity politics is bullshit and no longer working. People are voting based on their class level and the problem for Democrats is, they've truly gotten to the point where Republicans attacks on them ring true to people. The GOP attacks them for being out of touch with the everyman and it rings true cause the Dems don't even hide their contempt for the poor anymore. People are no longer falling for the empty platitudes and want nothing to do with identity politics.
Biden might very well destroy the Democratic party. So far he has proposed NOTHING to fix the recession and the unemployment is already at record highs to the point it's going to become a second great depression. The death toll of COVID is only going to double, if not triple under him. I see no way this turns out good for Dems down the road. There absolutely is going to be a massive backlash to his austerity, and it won't matter how much ID-POL bullshit the Dems shove at us, it's just not going to work.