United States | News & Politics

7328 readers

161 users here now

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

101

Once Again, the Democratic Leadership Has Failed Us All (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

both parties experienced depressed voter turnout compared to 2020. trump lost about 5m compared to his 2020 numbers, but the Dems lost about 20m compared to 2020. people are not going to get out and vote for a Diet Republican campaign that ignores their concerns to court a mythical moderate conservative population that both does not exist, and would not vote for them if they did. it's the EXACT same unforced error they made in 2016, and it caused a complete collapse of the democrat voter base.

Go ahead and blame the Democrats

I will. they ran an absolute dogshit campaign with no intention of winning, to appease their donors, which cost them the election. everything that happens under trump is on their hands. for a party supposedly fighting against the rise of fascism, they didn't try very hard at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

for a party supposedly fighting against the rise of fascism, they didn’t try very hard at all.

They're also still in power until late January. Settling aside the very large question of "why would you willingly hand over power to fascists?", does anyone think they'll do anything to even make it harder for Republicans to do all the awful things they ran on?

Biden could pardon every person charged with a federal immigration crime tomorrow, with the stroke of a pen. He could then order everyone in ICE custody released immediately and fire everyone he can in that agency. If I was seriously concerned about Republicans deporting tens of millions of immigrants, this would be the bare minimum I'd do.